A “grotesque controversy”: Olivier Faure and Marine Tondelier respond to criticism of their dance at summer universities: News

Seen dancing at the summer universities, Marine Tondelier and Olivier Faure responded to criticism made by Macronist MP Benjamin Haddad, reports BFMTV.

“Sad sirs who do not see that life must prevail.” With this laconic formula, Olivier Faure, first secretary of the Socialist Party, wished to respond to the controversy sparked by Benjamin Haddad, Macronist deputy.

Filmed by a journalist from Le Monde, the two political leaders were seen on a stage at the environmentalists’ summer university, dancing to the title “I will go where you go” by Celine Dion and Jean-Jacques Goldman. They also did a karaoke of “Desire” by Johnny Hallyday, accompanied by the former rebel Clémentine Autain.

Sad sires and controversies

A priori, there is no need for a controversy on this subject. However, some Internet users found the sequence inappropriate. An outrage galvanized by Benjamin Haddad, who deplored that “On the evening of an anti-Semitic attack, we laugh, we dance, we have fun with a character wearing the president’s mask. Everything is going well at the NFP”he got offended on X.

Faced with these accusations, the leader of the environmentalists declared: “If this offends some people, I apologize.”before claiming not to count “spend the morning apologizing”Olivier Faure, for his part, denounced a “grotesque controversy”.

published on August 26 at 2:30 p.m., Gabriel Gadré, 6Médias

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