While sports personalities call for a barrage in Marine Le Pen in the second round Sunday, the Rn tent shyly to position itself on a subject on which it has long been deadlocked.
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it is not the only one , but Marine Le Pen relegated to 3 e Division Sport during its presidential campaign. Has an exception and song. On April 15, the National Gathering Candidate (RN) published on His Twitter account a video where she resumes the chorus of the iconic tube of the 1970s Go the Greens, with a young supporter of AS Saint-Etienne. “I am not a big soccer society, but I have some memories,” she writes after this meeting at the pertuis, in the Vaucluse.
Yet when his opponent in the second round of the presidential election, Emmanuel Macron, is displayed on vacation with a jersey of Olympique de Marseille, M me Le Pen keeps his distances with Football and sport in general – outside the practice of riding and sailing younger. “She is honest. She follows big events, but she’s not a bitten. But de Gaulle did not like sport and was the president with the most voluntarist politics in this area,” Aleksandar Nikolic, The candidate’s sports advisor during the 2017 campaign.
Five years later, the position remained vacant, but the President of the RN Group at the Regional Council of Center-Val de Loire is always identified as the main interlocutor on the subject. One of the few too. “In the Rn, when you get to say that it would be good to develop a particular idea, we send you nicely Balader, entrusts a political policy advisor. Some leaders are interested in far – and generally rather rugby On football – but there is no nobody or almost who develops a political vision of sport. “
Does the subject be a dead angle for the former National Front (FN)? The various universities solicited admit to being barely to dissert it. “I had never asked myself whether the RN had a problem with the sport, but in reality nobody has never really worked on it,” says a prominent specialist in the far right.
Athletes not yet in support
The world of sport seems to have taken a stand for Emmanuel Macron. Or at least against his rival. “We do not want the extreme right to open the Paris Olympics and Paralympic games in 2024”, assume Philippe Bana, president of the French Handball Federation, interviewed by the team. in a tribune relayed by the Parisian and Franceinfo on April 12, about fifty Sports feel that “defending sports values is to combat the arrival in the power of the far right” and call for voting for the current President of the Republic.
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