Nearly 15.1 million viewers watched Emmanuel Macron’s televised speech at 8 p.m. on Monday evening on all the channels that broadcast it, after the enactment of the highly contested pension reform, according to figures from Médiamétrie published on Tuesday. .
This represents 69.5% of audience share. By way of comparison, in a similar format, 15.5 million viewers on all channels had followed the previous speech by the President of the Republic, last June, where he spoke for the first time since losing his absolute majority. in the legislative elections.
In a different format – an interview and not a speech – 11.5 million viewers had watched Emmanuel Macron’s television intervention on March 22 at 1:00 p.m., already in the midst of challenging the pension reform.
On Monday evening, his speech of around 13 minutes was broadcast by TF1, France 2, M6, TMC and the info channels BFMTV, CNews, LCI and franceinfo. In detail, it was TF1 which attracted the most viewers (5.9 million, 27% audience share).