Clara Luciani, Eddy de Pretto and Gaël Faye sign a column against the far right on the occasion of the Fête de la Musique

There are more than 500 artists calling to block the far right during the legislative elections this Friday.

Several hundred artists, including Clara Luciani, Eddy de Pretto, Gaël Faye and the group Shaka Ponk, are calling for a barrier to the far right during the legislative elections, in a column published Friday June 21 on the occasion of the Festival music. “The world of arts and culture is in direct contact with society and its developments. It exists through the meeting of others, the discovery of their differences, the expression of the intimate, with respect for identities and diversity.“, they write in this column published with the Syndicat des musiques nationaux (SMA) on the Inrocks website.

“It participates in the collective construction of a sustainable, livable, desirable and fairer future. So many notions incompatible with the ideas of the extreme right“, add the signatories, who also include Miossec, Yael Naim and the former representative of France at Eurovision Barbara Pravi in ​​their ranks. This platform claims the signature of more than 500 artists.

The world of culture has timidly made its voice heard since President Emmanuel Macron’s announcement of the dissolution of the National Assembly and the holding of early legislative elections on June 30 and July 7. The next day, a first series of personalities, including the authors Pierre Lemaitre and Annie Ernaux, Nobel Prize winners for literature, or the actresses Anna Mouglalis and Romane Bohringer, had wished for a union.leftists and ecologists” to prevent a victory for the extreme right.

The performing arts unions also called for mobilization against the far right, as did authors, in a collective text published Monday and signed in particular by the winner of the last Goncourt prize, Jean-Baptiste Andrea, the author of detective novels Franck Thilliez, Madeleine Riffaud, a 99-year-old former resistance fighter, or even comic book authors like Catherine Meurisse, Jul, Louison or Jean-David Morvan.

On Instagram, actress Marion Cotillard (1.6 million subscribers) published a photo where she is wearing a badge “Youth annoys the National Front“, with reference to Pigsty by Bérurier Noir, a punk anthem which attacked the party which has since become the National Rally in the 1980s.