The president candidate wants to remove the royalty that finances France Télévisions, Radio France, Arte, France Medialand World and the INA. The NR candidate intends to privatize almost all public audiovisual.
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“You have promised to remove the TV royalty? It’s not a blow for public television?”, Request a voice in the car. “Oh no, not at all,” retorts the head of state, in Episode 2 of Emmanuel Macron, the candidate, a series reporting the President Candidate’s campaign broadcast since March 4 on YouTube. The current tenant of the Elysée is not the only one to tackle the royalty that finances France Télévisions, Radio France, Arte, France Media World (France 24, RFI) and the National Institute of Audiovisual . Marine Le Pen goes further: She has promised to “privatize” almost all public audiovisual.
Officially, it is not a question of getting back on television and public radio, not always tender with regard to the two finalists in the presidential election, but simply to restore purchasing power to the French . What tomorrow are waiting for public audiovisual? Monday, April 18, on France 5, the president candidate himself put words on the concern of the sector, who fears that with the end of the royalty emerges a “blackmail” exercised by the government in exchange for credits.
In fact, the removal of this affected tax will return to the public audiovisual budget in that of the state. It would then be subject to the arbitrations of the government. Emmanuel Macron did not even mention the possibility of setting up a multiannual budget plan at the audiovisual public, while the idea had circulated in recent weeks. On the contrary, it stated that “each year”, a budget would be voted by a “sovereign parliament”. In other words, like any other activity financed by the public authorities, without particular warranty.
Accelerated cooperation
“The state budget, it is always a political choice, decrypts the member Aurore Bergé (the Republic on March). This is also the case of public audiovisual. We undertake to guarantee means that ensure its independence. “It is therefore on the political will that it will have to count. “What should be done to ensure independence? The same thing we do to ensure the independence of the Constitutional Council. There is no royalty to the Constitutional Council,” wanted to reassure the candidate on the chain public. At a detail: the financing of the Constitutional Council, which escapes the great scissors of Bercy, is guaranteed by the Constitution. Not the audiovisual public.
In France Télévisions and Radio France, we already know that the next five-year will not be any rest if Emmanuel Macron is elected. Jean-Marc Dumontet, referent culture of the president campaign, received a few weeks ago Sibyle Veil, the President of the Public Radio, and Delphine Ernotte, his counterpart of the TV. He sent them the presidential will: that of flooring on accelerated cooperation, in order to be more effective in management. Online with fireproof, the rapprochement of France France and the French chain 3. Very greedy in workforce, these two regional networks represent the first centers of public service costs.
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