A skillfully orchestrated hoax
Cyril Hanouna succeeded: to be talked about, before revealing that this candidacy was just a hoax. For 24 hours, the little politico-media world agitated. As noted Politicosome never believed it, others saw there a “freshness” which “Shakes the seraglus a little” in the line of Coluche in 1981. According to the boss of Current valuesthe host’s retropedlary would be linked to discussions with M6 which recruited him on an “apolitical” project – or to the fear of a time of speaking, as for Eric Zemmour in 2021.
“I am credited with 10% of the votes in a survey”: will Cyril Hanouna present himself to the 2027 presidential election?
Already in 2022, the name of Cyril Hanouna had circulated. As the political scientist Christian Le Bart recalls in his book Presidential? (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2025), “Its exceptional TV audiences, its strong popularity with popular circles, its beginning of politicization over the programs welcoming policies and the publication with Christophe Barbier of the book What the French told me could suggest a presidentialization company “. But things had not gone further.
It is not the first time that a public amuser has been loaned, rightly or wrongly, intentions of candidacy for the presidential election when he does not evolve in the political community: Coluche, Jean-Marie Bigard, Patrick Sébastien went by there … None was finally presented. Without forgetting Francis Lalanne and, at the time, Yves Montand, who had entrusted, lucid, on the set of Anne Sinclair: “It is not my ambition to be president. I do not have sufficient knowledge”.
Candidate or not at the Elysée Palace in 2027? Cyril Hanouna gives his final answer (video)
-“Terrain favorable to the emergence of non -professional candidates”
Why does Cyril Hanouna relaunch this idea? Because he orchestrates what he can do: buzz, and the construction of an influential character. For what Current values Does he play the game? To advance populist ideas. Cyril Hanouna has never hidden his ideological proximity to the ultra-conservative billionaire Vincent Bolloré, executives of the national rally and reconquest, and with the hard right. Finally, who can believe for a moment that Cyril Hanouna can claim to become head of state? As the specialist in democratic questions Blanche Leridon underlines in a forum in Liberation, “The presidentialness of tomorrow has nothing to do with yesterday. Hence the burst of candidates which, even denies, now seem credible”. According to her, “The authorities who have forged the presidentialness for decades are now weakened”. The rule of 500 sponsorships of elected officials required by the Constitutional Council is disputed, damaged parties, the media and delegitimized polls.
Cyril Hanouna drifts
Christian Le Bart in his work also explains that “The presidentiality of 2025 is no longer that of the beginnings of the Fifth Republic. The Fifth Republic worked for a long time on the basis of a simple equation which reserved the status of presidential to politics from major political parties. The dice were in any case pipped by the abrupt distinction between” small candidates “and” real presidential “, the first to appear sympathetic, moving, but remaining in the end confined to figuration “. But in recent years, he continues, “Media strategies and widening sounding of the presidential field have continued to become commonplace”. Amateur candidates can now “Sublimate their exteriority in freedom, in salutary distance, in independence from the organized interests of the political field”. Et “The context of weariness with regard to the political class constitutes a terrain favorable to the emergence of non -professional candidacies”. What give crazy ideas to any quidam to millions of followers?
Jean-Michel Apathie is being preparing a book on… Cyril Hanouna
