The summons of the commission of inquiry into public broadcasting are suspended until January 6, announces its president

Jérémie Patrier-Leitus, the Horizons president of the commission of inquiry, wants to “find appeasement”. He believes that the rules of rigor and respect set at the start of the work have not always been respected.

The parliamentary commission of inquiry into public broadcasting is taking a break for two weeks, but this is not really linked to the confectioners’ truce. Jérémie Patrier-Leitus, president of this body responsible for shedding light on the neutrality and financing of public service media, announced Monday December 22 that he would bring together its members on Tuesday January 6. Until this date, no new invitations will be sent to those to be auditioned for the months of January, February and March.

In a press release published onthe Horizons MP justifies his decision by recalling the rules that he had set at the start of the committee’s work, in November, such as the fact of not “transform it into a political tribunal, into individual trials or into a place of spectacle politics” or not to do “instrumentalization or distortion of the comments of those interviewed on social networks and in the media”. “One month after the start of our work, I note that these principles and requirements have not always been respected”deplores the elected official.

The center-right parliamentarian insists World on the “need for the committee’s office meeting to be held in order to agree on operating rules and thus to regain calm before the second part of the hearings”.

Without naming him, Jérémie Patrier-Leitus is clearly referring to the behavior of Charles Alloncle, rapporteur of the commission of inquiry. During the last hearings, the Ciottiste deputy very vigorously questioned journalists Patrick Cohen and Thomas Legrand, before sharing several sequences on social networks. He is also accused of not having transmitted to the commission of inquiry the documents he obtained. “I asked the rapporteur to send to the office the documents which could shed light on our work”defends Jérémie Patrier-Leitus in another message on.

These recriminations are not new. On December 17, Yaël Braun-Pivet called on France Inter the president and rapporteur of thea commission of inquiry “to try to keep as much dignity as possible”. The President of the National Assembly had affirmed that she was “calling the rapporteur to order to ask him to return to respecting our rules and our practices, so that the credibility of the commission of inquiry is not called into question”. Sanctions are “possible”she had threatened, “but we’re not there yet.”

new“I’m not going too far. My role is to be transparent about the use and allocation of the four billion euros paid by all French people to finance public broadcastingswept Charles Alloncle on France 3Sunday. When I post on my social networks the videos of the questions and answers of the people interviewed, it obviously poses a problem.”