Will the train driven by Rachida Dati arrive on time? Anxious to succeed that the reform of the public audiovisual reform adopted before the municipal elections of 2026, the Minister of Culture has been following the traps for several months.
To the point that the future of this law, which aims to bring together France Télévisions, Radio France and Ina in a holding company called “France Media”, exciting the opposition and mobilization of the unions in question, is pending.
Last event: the adoption of a motion of rejection carried out by the environmentalists on Monday, June 30, thanks to 94 votes, mainly of the ranks of the left, but also, to everyone’s surprise, of those of the national rally. Front, the mobilization of the government’s base was minimal: only 22 deputies of the Renaissance, 4 of the modem, 5 of horizons and 6 of LR disputed this provision.
“The text will go faster in the Senate”
If Rachida Dati’s entourage rejected any AFP camouflet, judging that “the text will go faster in the Senate” for a second reading, while the “left did not want to discuss”, this sequence questions the support available for the minister in his own camp. Above all, this does not remain value to the vagueness that reigns around the calendar.
First question: When will the senators look at this text? Will they do it before the end of the extraordinary session on July 11? Author of the bill that characterizes this reform of the public audiovisual, said Senator Laurent Lafon (Union of Democrats and Independent) to the world on Tuesday, July 1:
“Of course, I want this to be done as quickly as possible. But as we are in an extraordinary session, the decision to register it on the agenda, before July 11 or during the last week of September, returns to the government.”
What will the latter decide? Will this text favor or favor other options, while the parliamentary agenda knows a certain traffic jam, in itself in the origin of the opening of an extraordinary session between July 1 and 11? So, will senators mobilize enough to support the text?
“Damn reform”
A first response will be provided this Wednesday, July 2, during the Senate President Conference.
In any case, time is running out for Rachida Dati. Because a great project arrives in autumn. The 2026 budget examination, a high -risk step for Prime Minister François Bayrou. Therefore, it would be necessary, in a scenario that would be ideal for the former guardian of the seals, that the senators end the examination of the reform of the public audiovisual in the second reading before July 11. Then parliamentary transport can continue in the assembly at the end of September, before the budget.
If none of this is not successful, Rachida Dati would risk being private, before the municipal elections, of which he can potentially constitute the main act of his passage in Rue de Valois, he began on January 11, 2024. The text, then he would take the nickname of “Reform studied”, which he inherited after his multiple adventures.
At first, the project was carried out in 2019 by Franck Riester, then Minister of Culture, before being arrested due to the COVVI-19 epidemic.
Then, the project had returned to 2023 through the Laurent Lafon bill. Then Rachida Dati had to deal with several obstacles. Between the dissolution of the National Assembly in June 2024 and the censorship of Michel Barnier in December of the same year. Or, in April 2025, the incident that opposed the Minister of Culture to an assembly of the Assembly, delaying the examination of the text, before a postponement was decided due to a very busy agenda.
Source: BFM TV
