Politics · France · 21 hrs ago
Petition to remove CNews from French TV passes one million signatures
A petition on the French National Assembly’s website passed one million signatures on Sunday, 8 November.
It calls for CNews, a French TV channel owned by Canal+, to lose its frequency on digital terrestrial television.
The petition platform began in 2020, and before this, only a petition against the Duplomb law had passed one million signatures.
Under Assembly rules, a petition with more than 500,000 signatures can lead to a parliamentary debate, but a committee must first decide whether to examine it or close it.
The Cultural Affairs Committee is due to consider that choice in the coming days, with its president saying he would be proposed as the rapporteur.
A debate is possible, but not guaranteed, and the petition itself does not remove the channel from television.
CNews is regularly accused of promoting far-right views, which it denies, while figures on the right and far right have defended the channel.
A petition calling for CNews to be removed from French television had gathered more than one million signatures on the National Assembly’s petition website by Sunday evening, 8 November.
The petition asks for CNews to lose its digital terrestrial television frequency.
Under Assembly rules, a petition with more than 500,000 signatures can lead to a debate, but a committee must first decide whether to dismiss it or examine it.
The president of the relevant committee said he would be proposed as rapporteur so the committee could consider the petition in the coming days.
CNews is regularly accused of promoting far-right views and themes, which the channel denies, saying it defends freedom of expression.
- Who
- The petition’s signatories are calling for CNews to be removed from French television.
- What
- The petition passed one million signatures. It asks for CNews to lose its digital terrestrial television frequency.
- When
- Sunday evening, 8 November 2026.
- Where
- The French National Assembly’s online petition platform.
- Why
- The petition calls for CNews to be removed from French audiovisual media. Its specific reasoning is not stated.
Petition supporters
CNews and its defenders
Petition’s demand
Petition supporters
The petition calls for CNews to be removed from French audiovisual media and asks that it lose its digital terrestrial television frequency.
CNews and its defenders
CNews says it defends freedom of expression and contests accusations that it promotes far-right views and themes.
CNews’s place in public debate
Petition supporters
The petition seeks the channel’s removal.
CNews and its defenders
Jordan Bardella accused La France insoumise of seeking to close the channel and prevent the National Rally from expressing itself.
The National Assembly launched its petition platform after the national debate that followed the Yellow Vests crisis.
The petition passed 500,000 signatures, prompting a meeting of the Cultural Affairs Committee bureau.
The petition passed one million signatures.
- Signatures
- More than 1 million
- Petition demand
- Remove CNews from French audiovisual media
- Requested measure
- Withdraw CNews’s digital terrestrial television frequency
- Debate threshold
- More than 500,000 signatures
- Platform launched
- 2020
What people are saying
proposed as rapporteur
defending freedom of expression
totalitarian temptation