• Personalities, many from the world of culture, called on Thursday in a forum to vote for Renaud Muselier in the first round of regional Paca, "against threatening obscurantism".

  • Among the signatories are the leaders of the main festivals and the main cultural institutions in the region, as well as business leaders and actors from the economic world or associations.

They are taking a stand “against threatening obscurantism,” they say.

Françoise Nyssen, Charles Berling, Serge Klarsfeld, Angelin Preljocaj… 80 personalities, many from the world of culture, called this Thursday to vote for Renaud Muselier (LR), in the first round of regional Paca, to block the RN led by Thierry Mariani.

“Renaud Muselier is the only bulwark […] against threatening obscurantism, write the signatories of this appeal published on the L'Obs site.

From June 20, we must do everything to prevent our voices from being extinguished, do everything to counter the shrinking of our horizon, do everything to keep the light.

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Leaders in the field of culture

Among the signatories of this forum are the leaders of the main festivals and major cultural institutions in the region.

The president of the Festival d'Avignon and former Minister of Culture Françoise Nyssen, the actor and director of the national stage Châteauvallon-Liberté Charles Berling, the director of the national theater of the Criée Macha Makeïeff or her counterpart of the National Theater of Nice Muriel Mayette responded present.

Business leaders and actors from the economic and associative worlds, such as David Sussmann, founder of Pure Ocean, as well as Serge Klarsfeld, president of the Sons and Daughters of Jewish Deportees from France, also signed this appeal.

"Pragmatism is paradoxically today the armed wing of our ideals", they add, referring to "the diversity of (their) political affinities".

"Budget cuts" and "cultural censorship"

The RN candidate is given the winner in the polls in the event of a triangular in the second round and even (with a short lead) in the event of a duel with Renaud Muselier if the list of union of the left and EELV of Jean-Laurent Félizia is withdrew.

“The skills of the region are vast and crucial. Do we want to entrust the National Assembly and its candidate with the choice of policies in all these areas? No, culture, freedom of enterprise or of association and education are not compatible with the extremist ideas of the RN ”, they still write. "Several municipalities in our region still bear the scars, the stigmas and the ravages" of frontist municipalities: "budget cuts to associations, cultural censorship, nepotism, financial irregularities", they add. They cite the examples of Marignane, Vitrolles or Toulon, towns once ruled by National Front mayors.

Tuesday in

La Provence

, Thierry Mariani assured that if he was elected, he would “sanctuary” the budget for culture: “We will not lower it.

At worst it will be the same ”.

Elections

The complaint against Thierry Mariani judged "inadmissible" on the form

Politics

Cap ecology open to an agreement with Renaud Muselier to block the road to the RN in Paca

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