Eight presidential contenders will face a series of public interviews in Paris on Thursday to debate the future of public services ranging from education and security to healthcare and transportation.
The daylong broadcast runs from 10:00 to 20:00 at studio 104 in the Maison de la Radio, located in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. Gabriel Attal opens the line-up at 10:10, followed throughout the day by Fabien Roussel at 11:10, Raphaël Glucksmann at 12:10, and Éric Zemmour at 13:10.
The afternoon schedule continues with Bruno Retailleau at 14:10, Marine Tondelier at 15:10, Édouard Philippe at 17:10, and Jean-Luc Mélenchon at 18:10. Two invited figures, Marine Le Pen and David Lisnard, declined to take part in the event.
Organizers have structured the programming so that each hour features twenty minutes of live transmission across all combined channels, while the subsequent twenty minutes stream exclusively on digital platforms including the main website, YouTube, and social networks.
Three distinct pairs of interviewers drawn from public media organizations will question the political figures. The pairings pair Agathe Lambret from Radio France with Neïla Latrous from France Télévisions, Hadrien Bect with Perrine Storme, and Jean-Rémi Baudot with Myriam Encaoua. Four journalists, Paul Barcelonne, Madjid Khiat, Alexandre Peyrout, and Hélène Terzian, handle a twenty-minute debrief on social media following every interview session.
The joint project operates under the title “Nos services publics,” bringing together radio, television, and digital divisions to impose the topic squarely into the presidential race. Network directors said that public media must prioritize these civic discussions if other outlets choose not to.
If we, as a public service, do not raise the issue of public services, there is no guarantee that other media will give priority to this issue.
Agnès Vahramian, director of franceinfo radio and deputy editorial director of information for Radio France, told TV Magazine
The discussions also address the availability of local public services in rural regions, a point emphasized by Philippe Corbé, the director of information for France Télévisions. Furthermore, the role of public broadcasting itself forms part of the political debate, as the Rassemblement national has pledged to privatize public media due to concerns over operating costs and alleged political leanings.
And we told the candidates: there are no taboos, the question of public broadcasting does not bother us.
Agnès Vahramian, director of franceinfo radio and deputy editorial director of information for Radio France, told TV Magazine
As part of ongoing cooperation between the entities, leadership notes that political interviews like Benjamin Duhamel’s Sunday program “Franc-jeu” are already co-broadcast across multiple channels, alongside podcasts such as “On/Off” uniting political service chiefs from franceinfo, France Inter, and France Télévisions.
