“Emmanuel Macron is still the only candidate who can block Marine Le Pen”, declared on franceinfo the president of the University of Strasbourg Michel Deneken.
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“I understand their spite”reacts Thursday, April 14 on franceinfo the president of the University of Strasbourg Michel Deneken about the students who occupy several university sites in France to protest against the poster of the second round of the presidential election. “When two protest parties make almost 50% of the vote, there is no proportional representation and these parties are not in the National Assembly, that poses a problem of disarray among young people that I understand.”
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However, Michel Deneken warns: “When we say ‘neither Macron nor Le Pen’, it means that abstention risks benefiting the candidate they hate. Emmanuel Macron is still the only candidate who can block Marine Le Pen. We have to be careful to whom we sell our freedom.”
As in 2017, the president of the University of Strasbourg has “take a stand for Emmanuel Macron” before the first round. This Thursday, he defends his counterpart at the University of Nantes, Carine Bernault, criticized for having sent an appeal to students and staff by email. “to block” to Marine Le Pen.
Michel Deneken says “totally subscribe to what she wrote”. “On the other hand, going through an internal media at the university was probably a little clumsy but I find that we have very selective indignation todayhe regrets. We forget the dangerousness of the theses of the National Front (sic.). We are facing a huge challenge for our republican and humanist values in our universities.”