However, for this step to be completed, a commission must first make a decision by deciding to classify the request or examine it, while drawing up the corresponding report.
This text, posted online in June, calls for the withdrawal of the channel's TNT frequency as well as its permanent closure.
A petition posted on the National Assembly website calling for “remove CNews from French broadcasting” exceeded 500,000 signatures on Monday, November 2. According to the institution's regulations, such a threshold allows the organization of a debate in the hemicycle on the basis of a report relating to the petition.
According to the rules of the Assembly, a debate in the hemicycle can be organized on a report relating to a petition signed by more than 500,000 people.
For this, however, a commission must first make a decision by deciding to classify or examine it, then drawing up this report.