The president of the Modem François Bayrou on Sunday castigated a visual campaign of the ecologist Julien Bayou for the presidency of the Île-de-France region, who by speaking of the “boomers” “looks at people not as citizens but a category” .
On Friday, Julien Bayou, also head of EELV, unveiled in a tweet a series of visuals showing examples of supposed opponents of ecology to encourage his own supporters to vote.
One of the images, which has since been withdrawn and which has attracted much criticism on social networks, features smiling elderly characters and the slogan:
"The boomers are planning to vote
.
"
"This campaign says:" We do not look at people as citizens, we look at them as belonging to a category, a community ", and that it is the category and the community that vote"
, reacted François Bayrou on BFMTV Sunday.
"Because you are over 50, that means you will vote in a certain way, and because you are young, you can only vote for us
", aped the mayor of Pau, for whom
"it does not not like democracy ”
with individuals responsible individually.
The ally of Emmanuel Macron, currently High Commissioner for Planning, deplored "a drift, one more, it is not the most serious", in reference to previous controversies concerning statements by environmental mayors. On the left, the former socialist deputy Jérôme Guedj, director of the Observatory of social policies of the Jean-Jaurès Foundation, also expressed his annoyance on Twitter: “Ageism is unfortunately the most commonplace and the most admitted of discrimination, this poster is an example ”.
The former EELV deputy and LFI candidate for the 2019 Europeans, Sergio Coronado, on the contrary justified the campaign: "Ok Boomer!" can be summed up as:
"Your generation has experienced full employment, it has consumed without limits, has not taken care of the planet and you still want to explain to us what we have to do? You have failed. Let us manage now ”
. Former Prime Minister Manuel Valls, for his part, gave his "support" to the philosopher Alain Finkielkraut, the subject of another of the visuals saying "Alain Finkielkraut, he has planned to vote". It is
"a stupid and absurd campaign of EELV"
, tweeted Manuel Valls.
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