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7:42 am: What rules for social networks?

Emmanuel Macron’s team demanded on Sunday that his opponents be subject to the same rules on social networks as the president-candidate. In a letter to the National Commission for the Control of the Electoral Campaign (CNCCEP) revealed by the JDD and which AFP obtained, the Macron camp deplores “a difference in means of communication which does not seem justified to us”.

The CNCCEP ruled on March 11 “that, given the characteristics of the use” of the official @EmmanuelMacron Twitter account (7.9 million subscribers), “used for a long time and in a predominant way to relay messages relating to exercise of his functions as President of the Republic”, it was “preferable not to use this account to distribute” campaign messages. Since then, the Macron camp has been using the account@avecvous, created for the presidential election and much less followed (22,000 subscribers).

However, several rivals of the president-candidate continue to use their usual accounts, such as the candidate LR Valérie Pécresse (446,000 followers on Twitter), also president of the Ile-de-France region, or the socialist Anne Hidalgo, mayor of Paris (1.5 million subscribers).