The entertainment world is mobilizing after the first round of the legislative elections, marked by the historic score of the RN.
Director of the Avignon Festival, Portuguese director Tiago Rodrigues announces a night of debates this Thursday.
Artists such as Alexis Michalik, rapper JoeyStarr and actress Corinne Masiero will speak.
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The Avignon Festival is committed. The day after the first round of the legislative elections, dominated by the National Rally, director Tiago Rodrigues announces a “Night against the far right“, this Thursday, July 4. It is a “night of union, mobilization, a popular night” he said at a press conference on Monday, as it opened its doors on June 29.
After midnight and until dawn, the main courtyard of the Palais des Papes will host debates that will bring together the director Alexis Michalik, the actresses Andréa Bescond, Jeanne Balibar and the star of the series Captain Marleau Corinne Masiero, the rapper JoeyStarr or even the environmental activist Camille Etienne. “For one more night, we will fight so that on the evening of July 7, Avignon enters into celebration rather than resistance.“, insisted Tiago Rodrigues.
Unions also call for a blockade
Appointed in September 2022 for four years, this 47-year-old Portuguese playwright is the first foreigner to head this festival, created in 1947. In an interview with Monde After the RN’s victory in the European elections, this left-wing artist noted:Anger at a system that has neglected and forgotten entire sections of the French population and territory. Anger that is also manipulated in the way it demagogues to link immigration and insecurity..”
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During his press conference this Monday, the boss of the Avignon Festival gave the floor to representatives of the National Union of Artistic and Cultural Enterprises (Syndéac) and the CGT-Spectacle. Both called for “block the far right” via “the withdrawal of all the candidates who came in third position, so as to elect any candidate from the right or the left who finds themselves in a duel against the RN“.
