LIVE - Presidential election 2027: Le Pen and Mélenchon on the rise, Philippe still down according to a survey

Reliability of information, independence of editorial staff, protection against AI... The NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Monday sets out ten priorities to “defend press freedom”, asking for “concrete commitments” from presidential candidates.

“With its ten proposals, RSF intends to confront candidates with their responsibilities and encourage them to go beyond declarations of principle to present precise commitments,” RSF indicated in a press release, wishing to make the right to information a “central issue of the campaign”.

The first proposal is to “make the right to reliable information the great national cause in 2027”.

RSF also wants to “promote access to information”. This could involve the creation of a “media pass” for 15-24 year olds, based on the culture pass model, which allows young people to benefit from credit to finance cultural purchases.

The NGO also wishes to strengthen anti-concentration measures, for example by establishing a threshold “of capacity to influence public opinion, assessed on the scale of all media controlled by the same actor”.

RSF also calls for “effective guarantees of independence” of editorial offices in the face of “interference from owners”, and a strengthening of the protection of the secrecy of journalists’ sources. The organization also wants social networks and artificial intelligence (AI) players to properly pay the media for using their content.

Finally, RSF calls for “sustainably guaranteeing the independence and financing of public broadcasting”. The RN plans to privatize this sector if it comes to power.

“Ranked 25th in the World Press Freedom Index established by RSF in 2026, France has significant gaps in the protection of the right to information,” argues the NGO.

“However, the diagnoses have been made for a long time. The political responses are slow to materialize,” she laments.

Emmanuel Macron's campaign promise, the General Information Conference was launched in October 2023, to provide a broad overview of the sector's issues and formulate proposals. But these have never been translated into law.

Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon continue to lead voting intentions, the first well ahead of the second, while their pursuers Édouard Philippe and Raphaël Glucksmann are losing ground, according to a Harris Interactive poll for M6/RTL published Monday.

In all the hypotheses tested by the institute, the second round of the presidential election would pit Marine Le Pen, credited with 34 to 36% of the votes, against Jean-Luc Mélenchon, between 18 and 19% of the voting intentions.

Both the leader of the Insoumis and the RN candidate continue their momentum, up one to two points in most hypotheses compared to the previous wave from the same institute, published at the end of October.

Conversely, the mayor of Le Havre Édouard Philippe (Horizons), once neck and neck with Jean-Luc Mélenchon for access to the second round, is now well behind: credited with 11 to 14% of the votes, five to seven points now separate him from the LFI candidate.

The social democratic candidate Raphaël Glucksmann also sees his momentum slowing down, stagnating or declining slightly with 11 to 13% of voting intentions.