MP Quentin Bataillon participated in “Touche pas à mon poste” on C8. “No one can believe in its independence anymore,” left-wing elected officials regretted.
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The deputy Quentin Bataillon, president of the commission of inquiry into TNT frequencies, took stock of his work on Tuesday February 2 on the C8 channel, on the set of Cyril Hanouna, who himself was interviewed by this commission. In “Touche pas à mon poste”, the elected representative of the presidential majority scratched a competing host, Yann Barthès, who was also heard. “I think it was the first time I got angry, he had a pretty arrogant attitude from the start, he refused to answer our questions”he said about the presenter of “Quotidien” on TMC.
The commission was initiated by the deputies of La France insoumise in the fall to shed light on the allocation of DTT frequencies, including those of C8 and CNews brought into play this year. Its rapporteur, the rebel Aurélien Saintoul, joked on the social network X about Quentin Bataillon’s invitation to Cyril Hanouna’s show: “Thank you for your experimental approach to moving the commission of inquiry forward.”
“Don’t forget to check if we can now name, or even criticize, Vincent Bolloré in ‘TPMP’ without risking being attacked by Cyril Hanouna”, he added in reference to an episode of November 2022 where the rebellious deputy Louis Boyard, guest of the show, was insulted live by the host. This resulted in a record fine of 3.5 million euros for C8.
Several MPs then criticized the intervention of the majority MP on the channel. For the rebellious Alexis Corbière, “no one can believe in its independence and objectivity anymore.” “Here’s another one who is damaging Parliament and is tired of destroying democracy”, estimated the ecologist Benjamin Lucas on X as well. Olivier Faure attacked Quentin Bataillon on his own arrogance“go to Hanouna to spit on Barthès while chairing a commission of inquiry into TNT”.