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While social networks are agitated since Sunday about the suspension of Emmanuelle Praet by RTL, the Prime Minister, too, supports the polemicist. At the party office on Monday morning, Charles Michel defended himself in front of the MR barons at the Liberal headquarters on Avenue de la Toison d'Or in Brussels. "Thanks to those who have given their public support to Emmanuelle Praet, he said during the party office meeting.
She acted as a columnist and not as a journalist. She has expressed an opinion and that is normal on her part.
In the audience, another liberal questioned himself publicly: "I dare not imagine the reactions if it was the MR who had reacted as Ecolo did."
It seems that the opinion of the Prime Minister expressed in this private closed session has released the speech of the reformers. Following George-Louis Bouchez (the general delegate of the MR) who, first, had expressed serious doubts about the appropriateness of the suspension of the columnist, a series of personalities MR joined Monday the concert of critics.
The "scalp" of Francken
In Flanders, Theo Francken (N-VA) opened fire on Sunday night. On Twitter, as usual … "The presidential ecologist duo Nollet-Khattabi demanded the resignation of Emmanuelle Praet, because she said that the yellow vests had to think better before going to vote because these increases of fuel are ecological requirements. They got his scalp on the RTL set", He said, adding:"Party presidents demanding the resignation of a political commentator, journalist. I'm afraid of these greens. And I'm shocked that RTL gets on its knees."
Rutten joins Francken
The case of Emmanuelle Praet particularly shocked in the north of the country. The president of the Open VLD, Gwendolyn Rutten, also supported Emmanuelle Praet, saying that RTL's decision is "bad signal". "Every politician hears and reads badyzes about himself, the ideology of his party, which are false or contrary to what he thinks. To compose with that is part of liberal democracy. If we do not agree, we ask for a right of reply. No suspension"She wrote on the social network.
As a reminder, Emmanuelle Praet had arrested this weekend the representatives of "yellow vests" present on the set of the show It's not every day Sunday, reproaching them for having "always voted for the same in Wallonia"And inviting them to"think a little"Before slipping their ballot into the ballot box in the next election while"all taxes that you denounce are environmental taxes".
No political intervention, according to RTL
The remarks denounced by Sunday afternoon by the Co-President of Ecolo, Zakia Khattabi, who was waiting "a denial and a firm sentence". Soon after the broadcast, Emmanuelle Praet's interventions were described as outrageous by the management of the private channel which suspended, as a precautionary measure, both on TV and radio, the polemicist.
Despite this whirlwind of reactions, the management of RTL does not intend to change position: Emmanuelle Praet will be heard in the coming days as planned and a decision will then be taken on whether or not to maintain her collaboration with the private channel.
"For us, it's simpleexplains Christopher Barzal, communication director of the RTL Group in Belgium. We have a polemicist who did not complete the job that was expected of her. Contrary to what Francken suggests, at RTL, we do not have a politicized board of directors, unlike the RTBF. As a private company, it is up to us to set the rules and we simply find that they have not been respected by Emmanuelle Praet."
"No big plot …"
Christopher Barzal badures: if Zakia Khattabi has indeed tweeted her indignation following the broadcast broadcast Sunday by RTL, she did not contact the channel to claim the suspension of the polemicist.
"There was no political intervention to get her suspended, neither Zakia Khattabi nor anyone else. We must not see a big plot behind this decision. There is no connection between RTL and the policy. The show has existed for three years and Emmanuelle Praet must, as a columnist, intervene on the set by giving his angle of view to fuel the debate. Not to encourage people to vote for one party or not to vote for another."
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