"It says a lot about these people in reality, it's hatred all the time, everywhere, the fight all the time," said the president of the Rassemblement national group in the National Assembly on RTL.
"In reality, they go against one of the great values of sport which is that sport, precisely, is the place where you don't do politics," she added, convinced that groups calling not to participate in this match will be "judged harshly by the French".
The presidents of the PS groups, Boris Vallaud, and LFI, Mathilde Panot confirmed on Tuesday that their deputies would not participate in this charity match, believing that the RN thus hoped to continue its business of "trivialization".
The patroness of the Renaissance deputies Aurore Bergé also recommended to her troops "not to participate in a match which will give rise to a + team photo +": but "we do not play in the same team. Neither extreme right nor extreme left".
If the RN sits in numbers in the Assembly, "that does not mean that we must participate in their desire to normalize", urged government spokesman Olivier Véran on Cnews.
Mr. Véran nevertheless recognized an "ambivalence" in boycotting this match: "By telling you that I would not play, I am participating in the phenomenon which consists in raising the feeling that they are ostracized, that they are victims of the system, etc", he developed.
Asked about Sud Radio, the Minister of Solidarity Jean-Christophe Combe also regretted this boycott which "makes the 89 deputies of the RN rather sympathetic today".
"I don't play football but I think it's not the right way to fight the ideas of the RN", it's "a bad example, a bad fight to lead", he continued.
"Dismaying this story of the Assembly's football team! I have been a member for a long time and we have always overcome political differences on the ground, we must continue like this. To politicize everything poorly is unbearable", insisted Éric Woerth deputy Rebirth, in a tweet.
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