France Betrayals, hatred and quarrels within the Le Pen clan: "He stabs you in the back"
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Monday, May 9, 2022. The European Parliament is packed for Europe Day.
The stands and seats are populated by representatives of the Commission, the Council and parliamentarians who await Macron's speech.
Then, out of nowhere, a large group of teenagers take their positions on the stairs that descend to the center of the hemicycle and
the camera's sound equipment plays a recording in French: "You just landed on the moon... your hands are have become fish
... you discover a new planet. Here, plants have taken over."
Just as the narration begins,
the young people begin to dance, raising their arms, swaying and turning on their axis
.
Each boy interprets the movements differently: some faster, some slower, some energetic, some just deadpan and listless.
A strange show that lasts for 10 minutes in the chamber of Strasbourg (France) before
political officials who react in ways as disparate as the rhythms and movements of those who participate
in this strange choreography: there are those who smile and murmur or who record with the mobile.
Some watch the show with a visible face of astonishment and disbelief and not a few simply choose to look away with their heads bowed or adopt a gaze from 1000 yards to infinity.
Meanwhile, in the central part of the hemicycle, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, seems disconcerted;
Portuguese Prime Minister
Antonio Costa watches with a sneer
, and French President Emmanuel Macron takes in the big picture intently with a hint of a smile.
The particular performance is neither a
flash mob
(mass dances popularized during the crisis as a form of social protest) nor a prank.
It is
an act organized from the Elysée Palace "to embody the French presidency of the European Council"
, which
La République
currently holds within the rotation established for the member states.
Described as an "interpretive dance" and baptized as
Danse L'Europe
(Dance Europe, in Spanish) it is a performance in which Macron has spared no expense.
The dance in the European Parliament is just the tip of the iceberg of a more ambitious initiative for which they
have even created
a mobile application
-which asks to "access the exact location" of the user-
so that people can emulate the show by your account.
"
Everyone, whether amateur or professional, can share a moment of dance
, alone or in a group. They can do it in different cultural spaces as well as at home, at work, at school or in public spaces", animates the page of the French presidency.
A project for which the Elysee has also hired great names in culture such as the choreographer Angelin Preljocaj, who assures that
the purpose of the initiative is "to use new technologies to unite 27 countries
and more than 447 million citizens through of the dance."
However, it seems that the idea of France has not caught on among citizens.
His app has been a flop with fewer than 2,000 downloads worldwide, according to Android data.
At the same time, the performance in the European Parliament
has reaped an avalanche of ridicule on social networks and criticism
from the political class.
Some attacks among which Macron's great rival, Marine Le Pen, stands out, who has taken advantage of the controversy to influence her message against the EU.
"
She perfectly sums up the deep disconnect between the pro-European elites and the expectations of the people of Europe
," she said in an electoral key with an eye on the upcoming parliamentary elections in France.
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