As the legislative elections of June 30 and July 7 approach, a mobilization is looming against the National Rally (RN). Politicians, cultural actors and public figures come together to ask a clear and firm opposition to the far right for a free culture.
After hiring videographers such as Mister V et Lena Situations, Squeezie, aka Lucas Hauchard, published an open letter to his 19 million subscribers. Published on his social networks on June 14, the content creator clearly positioned himself against the far right while encouraging his subscribers to go to the polls: “Keep in mind that voting for a party that advocates hatred, discrimination, and fear of others has never been a solution.”
After the YouTubers, it’s now the turn cultural figures to display their political opinions through forums.
A platform of 800 cultural professionals
A column published in The world June 23 brought together more than 800 cultural professionals and organizations, including Isabelle Carré, Ariane Ascaride, Romane Bohringer, Emilie Dequenne, Gilles Lellouche and filmmakers Cédric Klapisch and Radu Mihaileanu. These signatories express their concerns about the violations of cultural freedom that could result from a rise to power of the RN. They also demonstrate that “the France of the Enlightenment retains a future”.
In this way, they denounce the developments observed in matters of culture in countries such as Hungary et Italy. In these countries, far-right governments have appointed representatives to important positions in the media leading to censorship and their privatization, in the hands of large groups close to power: “Italy and Hungary have given the example of what culture in France would be like if the far right obtained the majority” declares the tribune.
Creators around the world envy our freedom of expression and give as an example the France of culture, the France of human rights.
Tribune published in Le Monde, June 23, 2024.
Pierre Niney responds to Mathieu Kassovitz, Marion Cotillard “fuck the National Front”
Cinema and arts personalities are not left out. On X (formerly Twitter), Pierre Niney reacted by sharing an article on Argentina’s economic difficulties under the presidency of Javier Milei, a far-right politician. This tweet is interpreted as an implicit allusion to far-right regimes and a reaction to controversial statements by Mathieu Kassovitz on June 23, on LCI.
In his statements, he explained: “I have always been a little waiting for the arrival of the FN (National Front) to power, to see what the real reaction of the French is. Are we really the country of human rights or have we become something else? It’s also interesting, because perhaps we have become something else, and we have to accept that too.”
Marion Cotillard, for her part, spoke out on Instagram by posting a photo of herself wearing a pin with the slogan “youth piss off the National Front”, a reference to the song Rubbish of the punk group Bérurier Noir. This message, widely relayed, expresses its disagreement with the RN and encourages its subscribers to get involved against the extreme right.
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