The first game of the season will be played on Thursday. The French National Assembly football team, initially made up of deputies from all sides, will face a team made up of former football stars, such as Robert Pirès and Christian Karembeu, for the benefit of “e-Childhood” that fight cyber. bullying.
But that will finally be done without the deputies of the Socialist Party, La France Insoumise and Europe Écologie-Les Verts, BFMTV learned, confirming information from the Parisian.
“No socialist deputy will participate in the French parliamentary team’s football match tomorrow,” the PS said in a press release, adding that this decision was made during a group meeting in the morning.
Against “a trivialization of the extreme right”
And rightly so, the deputies denounce the presence of elected members of the National Rally in the team, invited for the first time to play under the colors of the Assembly.
“This is the first time that the RN is invited to participate in a match of the French National Assembly team. Nor will we participate in the next matches of the XV parliamentary rugby union if the RN is present”, warned the Deputies of the PS, indicating “reject this trivialization of the extreme right”.
Playing alongside the RN deputies would not be consistent for some. “I don’t play soccer with the fascists. I can’t explain all day that they are a danger to the Republic and then play soccer with them,” one of them told BFMTV.
Same justification from the side of LFI, which denounces the “political recovery” of the event by RN deputies to “affirm its supposed normalization.” “Football players but more inclined to tackle the far-right than to give him passes, the rebel deputies therefore choose not to help him score points with this first game,” the Insoumis indicated in a press release, specifying that they maintain their economic participation in the Association. e-Childhood.
“Let this yellow card serve as a warning for the future: on the pitch, especially for good causes, you have to win the association and football, not a party,” he added.
“Labels must remain on shorts”
For the RN deputy for Nord-Pas-de-Calais Emmanuel Blairy, it is a “rejection of democracy”.
“I really wanted to play this game with my teammates, whoever they are. I’m the goalkeeper for tomorrow’s game… They reject democracy. Maybe it’s the fascists really. They’ve forgotten the values of the left.” “, he commented into the microphone of BFMTV.
On the side of the presidential party, the boycott of the party is not planned. “They still missed an opportunity to keep silent,” reacted a Renaissance deputy upon learning of the decision of the leftist parties. Karl Olive, a party MP, deplored the “instrumentalization and hostage-taking” of the party.
“With what right should this or that player be prohibited from participating depending on his match? The labels should remain in the shorts,” estimated who is one of the team captains with the Parisian.
Source: BFM TV
