Fabienne El Khoury, spokesperson for the feminist association, said she was “disappointed” Thursday on franceinfo, after the debate between the two rounds on Wednesday evening between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen.
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“We didn’t have a lot of expectations. We really expected very little from this debate and, despite everything, we were still disappointed”reacted Thursday April 21 on franceinfo Fabienne El Khoury, spokesperson for the association Dare feminism, the day after the debate between the two rounds of the presidential election between Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron.
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Fabienne El Khoury believes that the candidate of the National Rally does not speak “women’s rights only from a security and family perspective, because women are presented as victims of strangers on the street or as mothers”. According to the spokesperson for Dare Feminism, Marine Le Pen “instrumentalizes women’s rights and sexual violence” forgetting that “the majority of gender-based and sexual violence occurs in the home” where are the fact “people known to the victim”.
Fabienne El Khoury also reacts to the words of Emmanuel Macon, who greeted Wednesday evening the “great job” associations. According to her, it did not happen “thanks to Emmanuel Macron” but even “in some cases, despite complicated policies and very reduced funding for associations”. “All the victories we had during his mandate, we had to snatch them”, insists Fabienne El Khoury. However, she notes “a positive point” during this five-year period: “As it was the great cause of the five-year term, even if it was not at all followed by concrete measures and the necessary funding”the subject “has imposed itself in the media and this has normalized certain feminist discourses”.
For the second round on Sunday April 24, Osez le féminisme calls for “vote for Macron, against Le Pen”not “to say that” the program of the president-candidate “is a feminist” but because she has “very afraid of having Marine Le Pen in power”. Fabienne El Khoury judges that the candidate of the National Rally “will harm the effective fight against gender-based and sexual violence”. drive it “in power, it’s really a danger for women’s rights”.