After football, Nupes deputies refuse to play rugby with those from RN

After football, rugby. The deputies of the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) will not play the next match of the Parliamentary XV on November 20 with their counterparts from the National Association, we found out in the parisian. During this meeting, the elected representatives of Parliament will face a team made up of Airbus leaders and former players from the Toulouse stadium.

In the columns of the newspaper, Jérôme Guedj, a socialist deputy, explains that he has “difficulty conceiving a third half with RN”. The same for the rebel Alexis Corbière, who had nevertheless evolved, during the last legislature, together with Louis Aliot, then a deputy of the National Association.

“Playing as a team with a lepenista, possibly, with a team of lepenistas, no,” he explains.

However, the parliamentary team is still made up of a single far-right elected official according to information from the Parisian: the RN deputy of the North, Michaël Taverne. Louis Aliot also wants to be part of the composite squad, but he has yet to renew his affiliation with the club.

“Rise of the extreme right”

The election of the Nupes deputies follows a similar decision at the end of September. Ecologists, socialists and rebels had boycotted a match of the National Assembly soccer team so as not to “banalize the extreme right”. Asked by BFMTV, the socialist and Paris municipal councilor Lamia El Aaraje had distinguished the previous legislature from the new one.

“Today we are in something more important, more massive” with “an advance movement of the extreme right in Europe that is extremely worrying” and the recent entry of 89 RN deputies to the National Assembly, he explained.

Contacted by BFMTV.com, Louis Aliot did not think that the parliamentary XV would suffer the same fate as the Assembly football team. “Rugby and football don’t have the same spirit,” explained Perpignan’s mayor, referring to the round ball issue as a “sectarian sport”.

The facts do not prove him right. But not entirely wrong either. Despite this position assumed by the elected officials of Nupes, the party sheet of the parliamentary XV includes socialist players: senators Rémi Cardon and Sébastien Pla.