Controversial holidays –Céline Vara reacts to the controversy over her trip to Oman
In “Arcinfo” this Tuesday, the elected green recalls her right to privacy and denounces a double standard between women and men.
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Céline Vara gave an exclusive interview to Arcinfo concerning her trip to Oman.
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- Céline Vara defends her right to privacy after the criticisms issued on her family trip to Oman.
- The elected green claims to have personally financed her vacation.
- The politician denounces a different treatment between men and women in politics.
Three days after being pinned about his family trip to Oman by “Blick“, Céline Vara comes out of silence. The future Neuchâtel State Councilor answered daily questions “ArcInfo». For the elected green, it was her right to privacy that took a hit.
And if she did not wish to speak on the controversy earlier, it is precisely for this reason: “If I had done something serious in the context of my mandate, I should have explained myself. There, I couldn’t see the reason, ”she told the Neuchâtel newspaper.
The holidays were paid in his pocket
The elected green also explains that this trip was planned for a long time. The place would have been chosen for its “programs with sea turtles and particular fauna”. She added that she had been preparing for this vacation for two years, with her daughters. Céline Vara also underlines having paid her pocket, and having “no matching with any sultan”.
A controversy that stems from a “standard standard”?
The fact remains that to get to Oman, a long trip by plane is necessary. However, as the Arcinfo journalist recalls, the future State Councilor criticized the Friborg government in 2019, when he took the plane to go to London. But for the Neuchâtel, the context is important: “At the time, we talked a lot about young people who were leaving the weekend to party. There Greens policy Stresses that it is obviously preferable to avoid plane trips when you can take the train, which I apply. ”
Céline Vara finally deplores that the fact “that an ecological woman who takes a few days outside the country makes more react than certain much more questionable trips”. For her, it reveals a “double standard”: “What we tolerate or ignore in some politicians becomes a state affair when it is a woman, in particular an ecologist”.
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Laure Schmidt Is a trainee journalist in the Swiss-World-Economy section of the Tamedia editorial staff since September 2023. She studied social sciences and psychology at the University of Lausanne.More info
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