While his teammates carefully avoided getting involved in the current political context and the imminence of legislative elections, the France team player called on his fellow citizens to go to the polls on Thursday.
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“With the situation in France, the alarm bells have been sounded. I think we need to mobilize to go and vote.” Asked at a press conference whether or not it is necessary to act against the rise of the far right in France, Ousmane Dembélé contrasted with the silence of the Blues on the subject of the legislative elections caused by the recent dissolution of the National Assembly.
“A few days ago, I was watching the 1 p.m. news. I believe that one in two French people does not vote. The legislative elections are coming, we must mobilize to go and vote”, he insisted to journalists, while the Blues’ first match against Austria is scheduled for Monday. The French player also revealed that the French Football Federation (FFF) intended to set up a system so that players of the French team could vote by proxy.
The day before, Dayot Upamecano and Kingsley Coman had refused to put a finger in the arena. “I didn’t come to talk about that, I prefer to talk about football”, had cut first. The second named the importance of placing football and competition above all else: “We said among ourselves that we had a competition to prepare for. We try to keep all our focus on football and we don’t talk too much about politics”. Same story with the modest Ferland Mendy: “Everyone has their own opinion, I have mine and I don’t need to show off”.
