Presidential candidate doesn't know where European countries are in this embarrassing TV moment

Four of the French presidential candidates were questioned by an uncompromising public this Sunday, March 27, 2022, that consisted of… Children. One of the candidates shocked the Internet due to his ignorance.

A show full of surprises

The show made its comeback on C8 on Sunday, to the delight of viewers. The French presidential elections are fast approaching, with only fifteen days until the first round vote.

Aged from 8 to 12 years old, the audience represented by the class in the program Au Tableau is, as usual, uncompromising and spontaneous.

It has become a tradition for French politicians, and even a must for presidential candidates, to win over a different audience to those at their usual meetings. This was an opportunity to see children questioning the candidates with malice and candour. The politicians were obviously not all as comfortable with this exercise.

A candidate shines due to his ignorance of the EU

One candidate was trapped by his ignorance of institutions, and in particular, the European Union. Indeed, Yannick Jadot, the candidate from the pro-environmental political party called 'Les Verts', did not know where to place European countries on a map. Moreover, it was impossible for the politician to name the capitals of these countries, since he did not know that they were in the European Union.

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The candidate of the Greens delivered the perilous exercise, like candidates Eric Zemmour, Valerie Pécresse, and Fabien Roussel during the same program on C8.

The incident did not fail to make some Internet users react, especially on Twitter. Someone on Twitter said, outraged:

Unbelievable sequence. Yannick Jadot, MEP and presidential candidate: does not know that Bulgaria and Romania are in the EU / does not know where Lithuania and Estonia are / does not know their capitals.

This article was translated from Oh!MyMag FR.