The editorial staff of the Sunday newspaper voted Thursday to renew its strike to protest against the arrival at its head of Geoffroy Lejeune, former leader of Current Values, and the weekly should be absent from newsstands for the fourth consecutive week.
“Unless there is a huge surprise”, the JDD journalists will not be able to complete the Sunday issue, a member of the newspaper’s Society of Journalists told AFP, on condition of anonymity. The 21st day of strike was voted Thursday “97%, in a secret ballot” (92 for, three against, 10 blanks and zero), said in a statement the SDJ. A new vote will take place on Friday concerning the continuation of the movement, which will determine the publication or not of the newspaper on Sunday.
“Since Thursday June 22, the JDD teams have kept their determination intact. Their demands remain the same: the management must renounce the appointment of Geoffroy Lejeune and offer the editorial staff guarantees of legal and editorial independence, ”continued this representative body of the editorial staff. The SDJ recalled that, in the declaration of the duties and rights of journalists in Munich, cited in the appendix to the Lagardère Media News ethics charter in force since 2020, any editorial staff had to be “compulsorily informed” of an appointment of this importance. However, the JDD journalists learned of the arrival of Geoffroy Lejeune thanks to information from the daily Le Monde.
Geoffroy Lejeune, 34, appointed by the Lagardère parent company, was rejected by the editorial staff of the weekly mainly because of his political positions. As a reminder, the editorial staff of iTélé had maintained the strike for 31 days in 2016.