“My place is” rather “in the street”, says the president of the Women’s Foundation

While Emmanuel Macron is due to chair a national tribute to feminist activist Gisèle Halimi, who died in 2020, on Wednesday March 8, the president of the Women’s Foundation, Anne-Cécile Mailfert in turn announces this Monday March 6 on franceinfo that she will not go “not to this tribute”just like Serge Halimi, one of the sons of the former lawyer. “My place is in the street, and that’s how we will pay him the most beautiful tribute”, says Anne-Cécile Mailfert. She thinks there could have been “many other dates in the year” to organize this event.

Anne-Cécile Mailfert also recalls that this national tribute will be held at the same time “than the great demonstration of March 8, a very important moment for feminist associations”. The President of the Women’s Foundation considers that “Gisèle Halimi would have been alongside feminists in the street, especially on March 8, which resonates with this pension reform which will be unfair to women”.

A refusal “policy”

Anne-Cécile Mailfert wonders if there is in this choice of date and time “instrumentalization or a huge lack of taste”. She admits that her refusal to participate in the tribute can be qualified as “policy”. But, the president of the Women’s Foundation especially highlights the fact that, according to her, “equality between women and men, the great cause of the five-year term, is faltering when we see how this pension reform will negatively impact women”.