Aurore Bergé, president of the Renaissance group in the National Assembly, recommends to the deputies of the majority not to participate in the charity match of the French team of parliamentarians which is being held on Wednesday, to protest against the presence of the elected members of the National Rally, learned franceinfo from the deputy.
“We do not choose the composition of the Assembly but we choose who we team up with”, she explains to franceinfo. The socialist, environmentalist and rebellious deputies indicated earlier in the day that they will not participate in the football match of the French team of parliamentarians scheduled for Wednesday.
However, “a number of deputies” Renaissance will participate well in the match, announces to franceinfo the deputy Renaissance of Yvelines Karl Olive. “In this presidential majority, we are not clumsy deputies”, says Karl Olive, a former sports journalist. He claims not to have “no political affinity either with La France insoumise, or with the National Rally”.
Karl Olive judges elsewhere “unacceptable” and “inadmissible” the boycott of the deputies of La France insoumise and the socialist deputies. “What right, what legitimacy can La France insoumise have to give us the camp of good, the camp of evil and why not next time ask for the religions of the players?”he asks himself.
“La France Insoumise, like the National Rally, as with the 577 other deputies, they were democratically elected by the French and as such there is no discussion to be had when you enter a sports arena for the good cause”explains Karl Olive.
This match, which must take place Wednesday evening at 6 p.m. at the Emile-Anthoine stadium in Paris, must collect donations to “fight against school harassment and cyber-harassment”, indicates the National Union of Professional Footballers (UNFP) which declared on its website that the French team of parliamentarians was “apolitical” and “politics [s’arrêtait] at the locker room doors.
The parliamentarians must face the Positive football selection, made up of footballers Sidney Govou, Clément Chantôme, Nicolas Douchez, Bruno Cheyrou, Franck Signorino, Laurent Pionnier, videographer Michou, comedian Paul Mirabel, rapper Rim’K in particular.