France: parliamentary committee shelves petition calling for CNews to close
The French National Assembly’s Cultural Affairs Committee decided on the afternoon of Tuesday, 10 November 2026 to shelve petition No. 5820, entitled “Supprimer CNews de l’audiovisuel français”.[1]
The outcome appears in a specific parliamentary notice: it is not merely an announcement of a future discussion or an agenda item.[1]
The official statement invokes Article 148, paragraph 3, of the Assembly’s rules and uses the term “classement”, meaning that the petition was shelved.[1]
It does not announce the channel’s closure: the verified decision concerns the parliamentary handling of the request.[1]
In its 10 November report, Il Post says the petition calling for the channel to close had attracted more than one million signatures.[2]
The newspaper places the case within the debate over the network’s political role and its influence on France’s public sphere.[2]
Its account also attributes to several analyses, including reporting by Le Monde, a connection between CNews and the rise of the Rassemblement National: that remains an attributed journalistic assessment, not a finding stated in the short parliamentary notice.[2]
The distinction between the documents is important: the primary source confirms the date, committee, petition number and outcome; the independent report supplies context and the signature figure.[1][2]
Shelving this petition should therefore not be described as taking the channel off air, nor should an assessment of its political outlook be attributed to the committee on the strength of that notice alone.[1][2]
Today’s decision is the new development; the National Assembly’s notice is the direct reference for its outcome.[1]
## Sources
[1] https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/actualites-accueil-hub/decision-de-classement-de-la-petition-supprimer-cnews-de-l-audiovisuel-francais — Assemblée nationale, decisione sulla petizione CNews
[2] https://www.ilpost.it/2026/11/10/influenza-cnews-vincent-bollore-dibattito-pubblico — Il Post, CNews e dibattito pubblico francese