Antoine Dupond, Tony Parker, Laure Manaudou… Many athletes call to vote for Emmanuel Macron

Athletes rise up against the National Rally. Two days after the result of the first round of the presidential election, which saw Emmanuel Macron (LREM, 27.8%) and Marine Le Pen (RN, 23.1%) qualify for the second round, around fifty French athletes have signed a petition calling on people to vote for the current President of the Republic. These representatives of France around the world announced that it seemed unthinkable to them that a far-right presidency would host the Rugby World Cup (2023) and even more so the Paris Olympic Games (2024), during which the eyes of the whole world will be riveted on France.

From Antoine Dupont, via Tony Parker, Laure Manaudou, Clarisse Agbégnénou, Laure Boulleau or even Yannick Noah, all have decided to publish a forum made public by Franceinfo to encourage the French to block Marine Le Pen. Here are their common words: “We, French sportsmen and women from all walks of life and all disciplines, cannot imagine that this historic moment will be marked with the seal of a far-right presidency. If we are fully aware of the difficulties that many French people are going through, we are convinced that voting for a party that would endanger republican values ​​would be the worst remedy“.

“We are calling to vote for Emmanuel Macron on April 24th”

While the second round of the election, who will have to decide who of Emmanuel Macron or Marine Le Pen will be the next President of the Republic for the next five yearswill be held on Sunday April 24, French athletes did not stop there. “The sport in which we believe, that of the values ​​of Olympism, is made of friendship and respect. It is the place of diversity. It refuses all discrimination. Everywhere on the territory, in our cities, our suburbs and our countryside, sport is a powerful remedy for exclusion. In these uncertain times, it is a rallying point. This is the case when a whole nation remembers that it is ONE by vibrating in unison behind the exploits of its sportsmen”.

“It is because we believe in this sport, fraternal and inclusive, that we are committed to preventing our nation from placing at its head a president who embodies the complete opposite, the stigmatization of the other, the withdrawal into oneself , nationalism. And that we therefore call to vote for Emmanuel Macron on April 24“. At least things have the merit of being clear.

The full list of signatory athletes

Clarisse Agbégnénou (judo), Samir Aït Saïd (gymnastics), Valériane Ayayi Vukosavljević (basketball), Brahim Asloum (boxing), Romain Bardet (cycling), Cécilia Berder (fencing), Alain Bernard (swimming), Marie Bochet (alpine paraskiing) , Laure Boulleau (football), Justine Braisaz-Bouchet (biathlon), Romain Cannone (fencing), Souleymane Cissokho (boxing), Élodie Clouvel (pentathlon), Cléopâtre Darleux (handball), Isabelle Demongeot (tennis), Stéphane Diagana (athletics) , Boris Diaw (basketball), Céline Dumerc (basketball), Antoine Dupont (rugby), Gévrise Émane (judo), Maud Fontenoy (sailing), Pierre Gasly (F 1), Edgar Grospiron (mogul skiing), Amandine Henry (football ), Stéphane Houdet (paratennis), Muriel Hurtis (athletics), Mickaël Jeremiasz (paratennis), Nikola Karabatic (handball), Raphaël Ibañez (rugby), Jean Le Cam (sailing), Eugénie Le Sommer (football), Christophe Lemaitre (athletics ), Laure Manaudou (swimming), Blaise Matuidi (football), Frédéric Michalak (rugby), Estelle Mossely (boxing), Earvin Ng apeth (volleyball), Valérie Nicolas (handball), Yannick Noah (tennis), Sarah Ourahmoune (boxing), Jean-Pierre Papin (football), Tony Parker (basketball), Dimitri Payet (football), Marie-José Pérec ( athletics), Allison Pineau (handball), Thibaut Pinot (cycling), Jackson Richardson (handball), Charles Rozoy (para-swimming), Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (tennis), Jessy Trémoulière (rugby), Cameron Woki (rugby), Tony Yoka ( boxing).

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