A petition calling for the closure of CNews reaches one million signatures on the National Assembly website

A petition calling to “remove CNews from French broadcasting” reached one million signatures on Sunday, two days before a vote by deputies on the classification without further action or examination of this request.

The petition on the National Assembly website, which compares CNews to “a propaganda machine” or to the American channel Fox News, will be examined Tuesday by the Cultural Affairs Committee of the National Assembly, competent on the subject. The latter will vote either on the dismissal of the petition, or on the organization of a debate in the hemicycle, in accordance with the regulations of the Assembly.