After the athletes, the artists. Guillaume Canet, Jeanne Balibar, Charlotte Gainsbourg or even Marc Lévy, nearly 500 artists and writers said this Friday in a forum sent to the media that they were going to vote “without any hesitation” Emmanuel Macron, denouncing the program of “xenophobia and withdrawal” by Marine Le Pen.
“Actors and actors in the world of culture, performing arts, we have sometimes had differences, oppositions, deep disagreements with the power in place“, say the signatories. “But if for some of us the outcome of this first round was not as expected, if for some of us mistrust remains; there is no hesitation for us today, no doubt, no hesitation. We do not equate democracy and populism”they add.
If for some of us the outcome of this first round was not as expected (…) there is for us, today, no hesitation
“Nothing in Marine Le Pen’s program brings us closer to the history of France that is resistant, humanist, generous and open to the world”emphasize the signatories, including the actors Fabrice Luchini, Béatrice Dalle, Pierre Arditi and Catherine Hiegel, actor Gilles Lellouche, singers Enrico Macias, Thomas Dutronc, Clara Luciani. “Tomorrow, we dare not imagine what would become of the culture within our country if it was her that the suffrage designated”, they indicated.
“We cannot imagine, at the head of France, a candidate whose program remains that of xenophobia and withdrawal, a candidate who has made an alliance with totalitarian and warmongering powers”they continue.
“We cannot imagine the feeling of the invaded, bombarded and massacred Ukrainian people, when they find out that we have elected an accomplice of the head of the Kremlin to lead our country”still assure the signatories, including several actors from the Comédie-Française. “We cannot imagine that France, country of enlightenment and of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, brings to power a president whose claimed friendships with the worst dictators in office would be our shame and our dishonor”they said.