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Did a TV station mistakenly show 36% voter support for Emmanuel Macron?

Posted on March 15, 2017

A graphic mistakenly attributing 36% of voting intentions in favor of presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron was broadcast on Saturday, 11th March, by LCI, a French news channel. LCI are now apologizing for this unfortunate mistake. Internet users who shared the poll questioned the credibility of the poll’s figures which, when added together, gave a total of 107%.

(Translation of tweet above: ‘A magnificent poll where when one adds up all voting intention figures one reaches…107%. Continue to take us for idiots!’)

Some users viewed the poll as an intended media manipulation to favour the candidate.

Contacted by CrossCheck, LCI stressed that “there was no intended manipulation” nor “subliminal message” in favor of the former Minister of Economy.

The poll image was shared hundreds of times on Twitter and Facebook. The BVA Institute, from whom the poll originated, later tweeted replies denying the figures (example below).

(Translation of tweet above: ‘Hello! This erroneous poll was not conducted by BVA, our poll dating from 11.03 shows Macron with 26% of intended votes and not 36%’)

The poll conducted by BVA for regional press gave voting intentions of 26% for Emmanuel Macron, tied with Marine Le Pen, while taking into account a possible margin of error. This poll was shown during LCI’s early morning bulletin at 07:00 local time on March 11, but with the graphic wrongly displaying 36% intended votes for Emmanuel Macron instead of the correct 26%. The error was corrected a few moments later and the numbers were correct in LCI’s later bulletins.

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Une chaîne se trompe en retranscrivant un sondage et donne 36% d’intentions de vote à Macron

Posted on March 14, 2017

Un sondage attribuant à tort 36% d’intentions de vote à Emmanuel Macron a été affiché par erreur samedi 11 mars dans un journal de LCI, qui s’excuse de cette “malheureuse coquille”. Des internautes ont relayé le visuel en s’interrogeant sur la crédibilité des chiffres qui, une fois additionnés, donnaient un total de 107%.

Certains y ont vu une manipulation médiatique en faveur du candidat.

Contactée par CrossCheck, la chaîne certifie toutefois “qu’il n’y a eu aucune volonté de manipulation” ou de “message subliminal” en faveur de l’ancien ministre de l’Economie.

L’image a été partagée des centaines de fois sur Twitter et Facebook, et l’institut BVA, à l’origine du sondage, a tweeté pour démentir ces chiffres (le tweet a depuis été supprimé).

A l’origine, le sondage mené par BVA pour la presse régionale donnait 26% d’intentions de vote à Emmanuel Macron, ex aequo avec Marine Le Pen, en tenant compte de la marge d’erreur. Il a été repris dans un journal de la matinale de LCI à 07H00 le 11 mars, mais avec un chiffre erroné dans l’infographie, qui affichait 36% d’intentions de vote pour Emmanuel Macron au lieu de 26%. L’erreur a été corrigée quelques instants plus tard et les chiffres justes sont apparus dans les éditions suivantes du journal.

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Will the French state establish new public holidays for the Muslim and Jewish faiths?

Posted on March 14, 2017

According to certain news websites, the French state is considering replacing two holidays devoted to Catholic public holidays with Muslim and Jewish ones. This is false. This idea exists – it was put forward in a report by the think tank Terra Nova on 22 February 2017 – but has no legislative action attached to it. In the document entitled: “The Emancipation of Islam in France“, the think tank, which defines itself as “progressive”, makes recommendations for the organisation of Islam in the country.

One of these recommendations concerns the holidays associated with religious festivals. Currently, in France, the only public holidays associated with a religion are Christian ones – including two Mondays (Easter and Pentecost). For “religions to be treated more equally”, Terra Nova advocates “integrating at least two new important dates, Yom Kippur and Eid al-Adha, as public holidays, by removing the two Mondays which do not correspond to any particular solemnity”.

Terra Nova’s recommendations are not binding for policy-makers. The foundation is close to the Socialist Party, but the government has never announced that it wants to put in place such a measure. Additionally, the Muslim and Jewish religious associations have never demanded the inclusion of new public holidays, with the exception of the UOIF (Union of Islamic Organizations of France).

The idea of introducing more equity in the confessional distribution of holidays has already been mentioned by some politicians such as Eva Joly during the 2012 presidential campaign or Bernard Stasi in his report on secularism handed over to President Jacques Chirac at the end of 2003.

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