Olivier Faure apologizes to Marine Tondelier after a sexist remark from a socialist

POLITICS – Being a woman in politics exposes you to attacks well beyond the confrontation of points of view. In an article from Liberation published Monday, November 11 and devoted to the future of Olivier Faure at the head of the Socialist Party, a close friend of François Hollande confides off the record that the national secretary of the Ecologists “ Marine Tondelier does the job for LFI. She has a green jacket but her underwear is red”. Reported and anonymous comments which, if common in politics, this time caused an outcry.

The First Secretary of the PS split « d’excuses » to the main interested party. “The courageous anonymous person will be able to find his place in the Pantheon of sexism”, he wrote on X. “Not that in the Socialist Party, which is a party that has made feminism its fight. Dear Marine Tondelier, my apologies for these perfectly inappropriate comments which nothing excuses”.

The leader of the Greens thanked him, then took the time to return to the matter. “I didn’t know that the internal debates at the NFP would one day revolve around the supposed color of my underwear”she annoys in a long message published on X this Tuesday, November 12. Estimating “that a supporter of a former President should not say that”et “a politician who claims to be a socialist even less so”Marine Tondelier recalled being “the only female party leader”.

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“I see some green ones and some unripe ones. But this kind of talk, in 2024, within the NFP, I didn’t think it was still possible”she continues. “ Beyond the dubious and sexist form (which doesn't really work), the substance of the statement makes no sense. » According to her, the Environmentalists are not “the job” from anyone, as the source interviewed in the article says Liberation : neither that of the socialists, nor that of the Insoumis. “Ecologists are Environmentalists”, she insists. “ They are determined in relation to ecology and I will remind you of this as much as necessary. »

Marine Tondelier takes advantage of this small exhibition to recall the need for a single candidacy on the left in 2027. “Not just to avoid the worst, but to offer the French the best. To improve their daily lives and to protect their tomorrows”.

In any case, she has received a lot of support from elected officials and left-wing activists, who consider the attacks to which she has been subjected to unfounded and sexist. “So this is where we are at NFP? »questions green MP Sandrine Rousseau, who expresses her « fatigue ». “The old sexist world has no place among us”also evacuates the Génération·s deputy Benjamin Lucas. “Unacceptable sexist remarks”denounces for his part the LFI deputy Antoine Léaument, when his colleague Farida Amrani deplores “abject remarks which do not enhance the author and even less the cause he claims to defend”.

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