Hakim Mokadem
06/17/2024 at 10:06
Since June 9, dozens of personalities have spoken out to call for votes against the far right during the early legislative elections.
Former athletes, actors and even influencers: since June 9 and the surprise dissolution of the National Assembly, dozens of personalities have officially taken a stand against the far right during the early legislative elections on June 30 and July 7 next ones.
Several figures in French sport, for example, called in a column published this Sunday on the website of the daily newspaper l’Équipe to vote against the National Rally. “Today we are behind, on the verge of losing the match. But we still have a few days left to react,” they wrote before adding: “Let’s vote against the far right, which has just achieved a historic score in the European elections.”
The rest after this ad
A very political pin
Among the 60 signatories: former athletes Marie-José Pérec and Monique Ewanje-Epée, sailors Isabelle Autissier and François Gabart, former footballer Vikash Dhorasoo or even ex-rugby players Serge Betsen and Fulgence Ouedraogo or the ex-player of tennis Marion Bartoli and Yannick Noah, the last French winner of the Roland-Garros tournament.
The rest after this ad
The day before, it was French actress Marion Cotillard who bluntly called for opposition to Marine Le Pen’s party during the legislative elections. On the social network Instagram, the actress published a selfie where she appears dressed in a jacket covered with pins. On one of them we can see the inscription “Youth annoys the National Front”. A reference to the former name of the far-right party.
Jordan Bardella responds
Several Internet stars also encouraged their audience to block the RN, which came well ahead in the European elections. With its 19 million subscribers, the YouTuber Squeezie, for example, warned against “a drastic rise of the far right » and called on “the young people who follow him” to vote in the legislative elections, in an open letter published on Instagram on Friday.
The rest after this ad
The rest after this ad
A missive to which Jordan Bardella did not fail to respond. “I discovered Squeezie’s open letter to young people. For several hours, multimillionaires responding to the very noble profession of influencer have been engaging ‘apolitically’ against millions of French people,” he said in a message broadcast on the same social network.
