2024-07-18 12:26:07
As the best summer soap operas, the sales of the week Marianne made official in April by the right-hand man of the billionaire Daniel Kretinsky, Denis Olivennes, continues to combine twists and turns. Faced with a deadlock in the sale of the magazine created in 1997 by Jean-François Kahn and Maurice Szafran, the CMI France group has just announced that exclusive negotiations with the Otium group of the monarch and fervent Catholic Pierre-Edouard Stérin are coming to the end. Denis Olivennes represented by email sent on Thursday July 18 to the Social and Business Committee then to the Society of Editors of Marianne (SRM).
Two days before the first round of early legislative elections, the drafting of Marianne withdrew on June 28, opposing the sale of the newspaper to Mr. Stérin. The introduction of Monde, on June 26, highlighting the links of Pierre-Edouard Stérin with Marine Le Pen and the National Rally (RN) through the François Durvye fund, as well as his decision to support parliamentary candidates under the RN LR banner, was worried inside. Less than a week before, however, Friday June 21, the same editorial team has answered no to the question. “Should the editorial board oppose the reception by Pierre-Edouard Stérin, whatever the claims of independence? »with 60.3% of the votes.
Most of the journalists now believe that the guarantees of independence they have received – approved by the editorial staff of its director and his representative within the future board of directors – will protect the newspaper from possible interference from the future shareholder. A small group judged that the opposition between the basic values of the magazine and Mr. Stérin was too deep.
Partisan money
After publishing several articles showing the political dynamism of those close to Mr. Stérin in favor of union rights, the SRM estimated on May 27 that “What appears as an individual’s ideological commitment turns out to be a partial enterprise” and this is done “The guarantees of independence received by the editorial staff are not enough to use our work with confidence”. So SRM has asked CMI France to come “New buyers are able to ensure editorial independence” of title and its “Economic Stability”.
For his part, the 62-year-old salesman Jean-Martial Lefranc continues to present himself as a reliable B plan and has been mobilizing to present since April. He met Natacha Polony, the editorial director of Marianne Monday July 8 then, accompanied by investment banker Philippe Englebert, former adviser to Emmanuel Macron, he tried to be sure about his financial strength and his editorial project by discussing with several representatives of SRM on Wednesday July 10
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