New brake for the public audiovisual reform project: its examination in the hemicycle, initially scheduled for Friday, April 11 at the National Assembly, was postponed sine die Due to a very busy program, we learned on Wednesday from a government source.
The Government has removed the text of the weekend agenda, the priority is to finish the examination of the bill for the simplification of economic life and its 2,000 amendments, according to this source.
“It is not really a surprise, it is pragmatism,” the Ministry of Culture requested, requested by AFP. “This does not question the will of the government in any way and the majority of advancing in the reform of public audiovisual,” he insisted.
According to him, a new exam date in the public session “will be established as quickly as possible, before summer.”
Text exam interrupted on April 1 after an incident
However, this postponement extends the obstacle series already found by the project, whose objective is to create a company holder, France Médias, Supervisor France Télévisions, Radio France and Ina (National Institute of Audiovisual), under the authority of a president.
Already validated in the first reading in the Senate in 2023, the bill could not adopt Tuesday night in the Cultural Affairs Commission in the National Assembly for lack of time, the deputies had discussed great hundreds of amendments in more than 1,600.
But a “vast majority voted the disposition that the company holder executive on January 1, 2026,” insists on the ministry.
The text exam was interrupted on April 1 after an incident that had opposed the Minister of Culture to an assembly official.
There was no “assault”, or “insults”, or “threats”, they had assured Rachida Dati the next day before the commission, while their president Fatiha Keloua hashi (PS) expected excuses, pointing out “serious events.” The work could not resume.
Be Serpent relaunched by Rachida Dati upon arrival at the Ministry in early 2024, the original project provided a fusion of companies, in a kind of French BBC, but was interrupted by the dissolution of the Assembly in the summer.
A strike warning is maintained on Thursday and Friday in France Télévisions and Radio France, to “conduct a new clove in the company of the holder,” according to the press releases of their unions.
Source: BFM TV
