The charity match must be played on Wednesday for the benefit of the E-Enfance association. The elected “rebellious” who refuse to participate in it announce that they will financially support the association.
Le Monde with AFP
of parliamentarians, gathered within the football team of the National Assembly, and former professional players will play, Wednesday, September 28 in the evening, for the benefit of the E -Enfance association – which fights against harassment School and cyberbullying, with the national number 30 18. But several left -wing deputies announced their decision to boycott this charity match to protest against the presence in the workforce of several elected officials of the National Rally (RN), confirming Parisian information .
Deputies of La France Insoumise (LFI) and the Socialist Party (PS) have chosen not to participate in this match organized in Paris, a way for these elected officials to refuse the “trivialization of the extreme right”. The elected officials “rebellious” Eric Coquerel, Ugo Bernalicis and David Guiraud believe that the RN wanted to “use this match to normalize”, according to a parliamentary source. Failing to participate in the meeting, they intend to support the association financially.
After the election of eighty-nine deputies RN in June, “this is the first time that the RN has been invited to participate in a match of the National Assembly team”, deplores Its side the socialist group in a press release. “We will not participate in the next games of the XV parliamentary rugby if the RN is present,” add the PS deputies, who specify that their decision was taken in group meeting on Tuesday morning.
There were no greens or communists in the workforce.
Renaissance and LR assume
At the RN, the deputy Julien Odoul denounces “regrettable sectarianism” while “the cause is more important, for children victims of cyberbullying. We are never surprised with LFI”. Cocapitania of the team, the Renaissance deputy Karl Olive regrets that “LFI instrumentalizes and takes the match hostage. It will be more about the national rally”, he believes, then “that [the elected officials had] the Opportunity to offer a benevolent image of the assembly “.
This boycott “is stupid”, abounds the other captain, Pierre-Henri Dumont (Les Républicains). “It is a charity match” and “LFI said nothing when they played in the parliamentary XV with the RN Louis Aliot”, he insists, in reference to the rugby team which sometimes gathered the deputy of Seine -Saint-Denis Alexis Corbière and Mr. Aliot, ex-deputy of the Pyrénées-Orientales, now mayor of Perpignan. The former socialist deputy Gisèle Biémouret co -worked this XV.