Alain Duhamel

Alain Maurice Jacques Duhamel born 31 May 1940 is a prominent French journalist and political commentator In 1963 Duhamel started working at Le Monde He started giving talks on Europe 1 from 1974 He has also written in Libération since 1992 and in Les Dernières Nouvelles dAlsace Duhamel has also hosted several television political broadcasts À armes égales from 1970 Cartes sur table on Antenne 2 from 1978 succeeded by LHeure de vérité and eventually 100 minutes pour convaincre from 2002 as well as Question Ouverte During the French presidential election of 1995 Duhamel along with fellow journalist Guillaume Durand hosted the television debate between Jacques Chirac and Lionel Jospin Duhamel has also worked with RTL from 1999 In 2006 Duhamel published Les Prétendants 2007 listing 20 likely contendants of the French presidential election of 2007 and notably ignoring Ségolène Royal Duhamel persisted in denying that Royal was a likely contendant even as she rose in popularity He eventually included a chapter on the pocket edition of the book On November 27 2006 during a talk at Sciences Po Duhamel stated his intention to vote for François Bayrou A video of the event was released on Dailymotion and Duhamel was suspended from his activities at France 2 and RTL until the end of the campaign In 2009 Duhamel released La Marche Consultaire a book which made comparisons between Nicolas Sarkozy and Napoleon Source Article Alain Duhamel from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30