The first round of the legislative elections recorded a record turnout for 27 years on Sunday, June 30, 2024. With 33.14% of the vote, the National Rally largely outdistanced the New Popular Front (27.99%) and Together for the Republic (20.76%).
France 2 offered a special evening around the consequences of the dissolution of the National Assembly caused by Emmanuel Macron after the results of the European elections. From 6:45 p.m., Anne-Sophie Lapix and Laurent Delahousse took to the airwaves of the channel whose 1 p.m. news will welcome a new face.
Throughout the evening, the duo welcomed many political figures. After 10 p.m., they were joined by Marine Tondelier, national secretary of Europe Ecologie-Les Verts, Aurore Bergé, Minister Delegate for Equality between Women and Men, and Jean-Philippe Tanguy, outgoing National Rally MP for the Somme.
Marine Tondelier leaves the set, Jean-Philippe Tanguy calls out to her…
After a tense exchange with Aurore Bergé, Marine Tondelier suddenly left the set at 10:30 p.m. “Bye !”she simply said in the direction of the presenters. As she was heading backstage, the national secretary of Europe Ecologie-Les Verts was challenged by Jean-Philippe Tanguy.
“Mrs. Tondelier, if you can tell your friends on the Place de la République not to trash it as usual and not to turn it into a dump,” chanted the one who lost his means on the set of Bonjour !Bruce Toussaint’s morning show on TF1. Anne-Sophie Lapix criticized him for waiting until she left to say it.
“Oh that! She’s leaving, she can’t answer you… You could have called him out before perhaps… That would have been more courageous!“said the presenter of the 8pm news on France 2. Jean-Philippe Tanguy was not impressed. “Yes, but it must be said because once again, the city centres of France are going to be damaged by this extreme left which lectures the whole world while they trash the public highway, they are going to burn bus shelters, they are going to insult voters who do not think like them…”he retorted.
What audience for election nights on France 2 and TF1?
La Deux chose to split its election night into two parts. The first, broadcast between 7:53 p.m. and 9:47 p.m., was watched by 5.17 million viewers, or 21.1% of the entire audience, according to figures from Médiamétrie relayed by PuremediasThe second, offered until 10:38 p.m., brought together 3.23 million French people, or 15.2% of the total audience.
TF1, for its part, entrusted its special first round of the legislative elections to Anne-Claire Coudray and Gilles Bouleau. The latter dominated the audiences by conquering, from 7:59 p.m. to 9:38 p.m., 5.59 million viewers, or 22.4% of the total audience. In the process, the private channel offered Les Bronzés 3: Friends for LifeThe comedy by the Splendid troupe maintained the presence of 2.16 million French people, or 12% of the total audience.
