IHe is in favor of an alliance of the right for the legislative elections. Guy Drut, Olympic champion in 1976 and politician, spoke out in favor of the union of the Republicans, his original party, with the National Rally. “I remain and I will vote for Les Républicains (LR), Éric Ciotti tendency, because I approve of the union of the rights and the alliance with the National Rally (RN),” he assured in an interview with World published this Tuesday, June 18.
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The former 110 meter hurdles specialist, and former Minister of Sports under Jacques Chirac, believes that “Éric Ciotti was right to call for this agreement in the face of the left-wing fascist threat”, comparing La France insoumise to “countries of Eastern Europe at the end of the 1960s. He nevertheless notes the “clumsiness” of the boss of the Republicans, who announced an alliance with the Le Pen family party without prior discussion with the executives of his camp, which earned him exclusion.
He also considers that the National Rally, the party of Jordan Bardella and Marine Le Pen, “is no longer” that of the founder of the National Front, Jean-Marie Le Pen.
“No reason” for the Olympics to go badly
Member of the Olympic Committee since 1996, Guy Drut also spoke about the good performance of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, in the event of a victory for the RN in the early legislative elections. “The attacks in Munich in 1972 did not prevent the Games from taking place. There is no reason for things to go badly with an RN government,” he assured the daily, believing that it was not the executive which “keeps (the) Olympic machine running”.
READ ALSO “I am against the extremes”, Kylian Mbappé in turn takes a standSports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra widely criticized the former athlete’s position towards the National Rally. “Guy Drut is not worried about Paris 2024, since “the attacks in Munich in 1972 did not prevent the Games from taking place” […] What a decline. The new recruits of the RN are in its image: all inconsistency and inconsistency,” wrote the minister on the social network X.
Two days before Guy Drut took this position, more than 160 athletes signed a column on the newspaper’s website.
The Team, calling to vote “against the extreme right”. The signatories of this declaration, including Yannick Noah, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Marion Bartoli and Marie-José Pérec, strongly condemn the far right for its fundamental opposition to the “construction of a democratic, tolerant and dignified society”.
