Matthieu Pigasse reaffirms his position against the extreme right. The media man and investment banker, long-time committed to the left, deplores the “extreme polarization between two conceptions of the world”, between “one open and progressive” and another “closed, which is based on the closure of borders […] driven by the “radical right”.”
Based on this observation, the director of Inrockuptibles and Radio Nova and shareholder of Monde and HuffPost, believes that a “major fight” must be waged and presents itself with “unequal means”. “I want to put the media that I control in this fight, at the service of an open, progressive conception of the world,” he says in an interview with Liberation.
“If you look at the evolution of Radio Nova, this is exactly what we are doing, and what we are going to continue to do in an increasingly strong manner,” specifies Matthieu Pigasse, highlighting the arrival of Guillaume Meurice, licensed from Radio France, on the air.
According to the manager, Radio Nova thus remains faithful to its values with, on the one hand, music, and on the other “making a mess”. “And therefore allow us to say things that others no longer say, with an offbeat tone and humor. »
A “connivance” between certain business leaders and the far right
In the columns of the daily, Matthieu Pigasse says he discusses with all the left-wing forces, despite the “loads of mud from certain economic circles” that he received when he took a position for the New Popular Front during early legislative elections last year, he who called for Jean-Luc Mélenchon to vote in 2017.
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“I observe that there is complacency, even in certain cases collusion, between the leaders of large companies and the extreme right,” he notes, pointing to the program of the National Rally, which addresses issues themes that “speak” to leaders, with “less bureaucracy, fewer taxes”. But according to him, these same business leaders “are the same ones who are the first to ask for public aid, the same ones who applauded when more than 140 billion in guaranteed loans were distributed by the State during Covid”.
For the banker critical of capitalism, businesses are one of the “pillars of civil society”. “I do not understand, moreover, that the proponents of this position do not understand that economic nationalism, withdrawal into oneself, leads to an impasse”, he regrets, castigating the case of Vincent Bolloré who is “the 'obvious example'.
