Morning coverage stayed on fuel anger ahead of Emmanuel Macron's 20 Heures interview on TF1 and France 2. Diesel reached an EU record at 2.23 euros a litre, hauliers denounced unequal aid and threatened mobilisation, and Medef rejected shifting the bonus onto companies.
Daytime attention revisited the left-primary debate, stressing wage convergence but splits over LFI, Gaza and Israel, with Manon Aubry rejecting alliance and courts upholding Philippe Brun's exclusion, alongside Rachida Dati's tense exchanges with Renault lawyers and the widening Thélyson Orélien AI-plagiarism affair.
In the evening all outlets went live to Macron, who denounced Russian hostile and sometimes criminal acts, announced military means to protect Saudi Arabia's Yanbu oil port, promised to avoid shortages and contain prices without immediately cutting taxes, defended quoi qu'il en coûte and ruled out dissolution over the budget.