“You are really uncomfortable”: live on air, Apolline de Malherbe hits where it hurts

This Wednesday, February 5, 2025, Apolline de Malherbe did not hesitate to push her political guest to his limits.

© BFMTV This Wednesday, February 5, 2025, Apolline de Malherbe did not hesitate to push her political guest into his entrenchments.

IN BRIEF

• On February 5, 2025, Apolline de Malherbe interviewed Sébastien Chenu on BFMTV concerning current politics and the use of 49.3 by François Bayrou.
• Sébastien Chenu expressed his discomfort with the proposed budget, while emphasizing the responsibility of the National Rally in maintaining political stability.
• Discover how Apolline de Malherbe highlighted Sébastien Chenu's contradictions on the budget and political censorship.

This Wednesday, February 5, 2025, Apolline de Malherbe hosted a new episode of Face à Apolline. Face à political news very rich, the journalist received Sébastien Chenu, deputy Rassemblement National. While François Bayrou engaged the responsibility of his government by adopting several texts under 49.3, the BFMTV journalist then asked his opinion to Sébastien Chenu, which like the Socialist Party did not vote for the censorship of La France Insoumise.

But apparently, the politician does not convince the journalist: “And I sense you are a little uncomfortable saying, Sébastien Chenu, in your heart and conscience, deep down, you, you would have preferred to censor it ?”, she asks. But there again, the deputy will justify itself in a surprising way: “Ah well, if there was a possibility that this government would come across this subject and reject this budget, “obviously”. 

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Apolline de Malherbe pushes her political guest into his entrenchments

Apolline de Malherbe continues to push her guest into his entrenchments: “Çthat means, Sébastien Chenu, that if the Socialist Party, two days ago, had said ‘we are censoring’ you would have censored too ?”. To which Sébastien Chenu replies: “Çthat would have made us question… So, there is the question of instability, because we are responsible people. What we are saying is a bit contradictory”. Apolline de Malherbe senses that her guest politician has a hard time really saying what he thinks. “When I say you're uncomfortable, you're really uncomfortable”, says the journalist.

Here is Sébastien Chenu agreeing with the journalist: “But of course we are uncomfortable with this budget. It is a bad budget. I told you at the beginning of the conversation, it is choosing between different disadvantages of politics. So on the one hand, would we have let it pass, in any case we were voting against the budget, would we have censored it at the risk of instability politics ? The question really arises”. 

“This budget is not up to par”

Aware that things are very difficult at the moment in politics, Sébastien Chenu believes that the National Rally has taken its responsibilities: “I think that when you are responsible in politics, you must actually look at things in their reality. All the mayors of the communes, during the period of the wishes, told us that we need stability”, he asserts.

A thought that would be common with the party's bigwigs: “Jordan Bardella said it, Marine Le Pen said it, this budget is not up to par. We have protected the biggest pitfalls, for example the deindexation of pensions, it is still thanks to us. When you say the National Rally, what is it for? ? It is thanks to us that pensions have not been deindexed”, he congratulates himself.