Europe 1 with AFP 9:47 p.m., April 12, 2022
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 Le
Parisien
calling for a 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.
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"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.