About fifty personalities from the sports world, including ex-basketball player Tony Parker, ex-swimmer Laure Manaudou or judoka Clarisse Agbégnénou signed a column published Tuesday in Le Parisien calling for a vote for Emmanuel Macron and refusing “a president of ‘far right”.
About fifty personalities from the sports world, including ex-basketball player Tony Parker, judoka Clarisse Agbégnénou, handball player Nikola Karabatic, and ex-swimmer Laure Manaudou, signed a column published Tuesday in the Parisian calling to vote for Emmanuel Macron and refusing “a far-right president”. “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”, write the signatories of this text also published by France Info.
“Sport refuses all discrimination”
RN candidate Marine Le Pen, with 23.15%, came in second behind Emmanuel Macron (27.85%) after the first round. “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”, they continue.
“In these uncertain times, it is a vector of unity. (…) It is because we believe in this sport, fraternal and inclusive, that we are committed to preventing our nation from placing a president at its head. which embodies quite the opposite, the stigmatization of the other, the withdrawal into oneself, nationalism”, they add.