“Actors and actors in the world of culture, performing arts, we have sometimes had differences, oppositions, deep disagreements with the power in place“, indicate these hundreds of signatories in a forum sent to the media including AFP. “But if for some of us the outcome of this first round was not as expected, if for some of us mistrust remains; for us today there is no hesitation, no doubt, no hesitation. We do not equate democracy and populism“, they add.
“Nothing in Marine Le Pen’s program brings us closer to the history of a resistant, humanist, generous and open to the world France.“, underline the signatories among which also appear Fabrice Luchini, Béatrice Dalle, Catherine Hiegel, Gilles Lellouche, 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 comedians 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 indicated.
Two days ago, officials from the world of culture, including Jack Lang, Olivier Py or Stanislas Nordey, also called for Emmanuel Macron to be voted for in the second round of the presidential election, stressing that abstention can benefit his opponent from extreme right, Marine Le Pen.