Posted online in “Le Monde”, this column ends with an exhortation to “vote in each constituency to beat the RN candidate” on Sunday in the second round of the legislative elections.
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A thousand historians, led by researchers and academics known for their left-wing convictions, called for a vote against the National Rally in a column published on Tuesday July 2 in The world. Posted online Monday and printed in the newspaper on Tuesday, this column ends with an exhortation to “vote in each constituency to beat the RN candidate” Sunday in the second round of legislative elections.
“France must not turn its back on its history. Until now, the extreme right has only come to power in the turmoil of a military defeat and a foreign occupation in 1940,” write Patrick Boucheron, Antoine Lilti, Pierre Nora, Mona Ozouf and Michelle Perrot.
“We will not resign ourselves to a new defeat, that of the values which, since 1789, have founded the French political pact and national solidarity.”
The signatories of the platform
They describe the RN as “heir to the National Front, founded in 1972 by those nostalgic for Vichy and French Algeria”, Who “is thus part of the history of the French extreme right, shaped by xenophobic and racist nationalism, by anti-Semitism, violence and contempt for parliamentary democracy.”
