About fifty personalities from the sports world, including judoka Clarisse Agbégnénou, handball player Nikola Karabatic, ex-basketball player Tony Parker and ex-swimmer Laure Manaudou, signed a column published on Tuesday in The Parisian calling to vote for Emmanuel Macron and refusing “a far-right president”.
“If we are fully aware of the difficulties that many French people are going through, we are convinced that voting for a party that would endanger republican values would be the worst remedy”, write the signatories of this text also published by France Info.
The values of Olympism
RN candidate Marine Le Pen, with 23.15%, came in second behind Emmanuel Macron (27.85%) after the first round. “The sport in which we believe, that of the values of Olympism, is made of friendship and respect; it is the place of diversity. He refuses all discrimination, ”they continue.
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