It is a classic to which all the candidates in the regional elections in Ile-de-France have devoted themselves this Sunday.
Post a photo of them on social media voting in their polling station.
Jordan Bardella, the RN candidate has not cut it.
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At the end of the morning, the regional councilor published this short message on Twitter: “Voted, in Saint-Denis” illustrated with a photo where we see him signing a list of votes after having placed his ballot in the ballot box.
The assessor facing him is a veiled woman.
A cliché that sparked a wave of Islamophobic comments on the social network.
The hashtags #Bardella and # Saint-Denis even found themselves trending on Twitter during the day.
"Those who invoke any legal argument are wrong"
The publication of this photo, which shows the face of the masked assessor, angered the mayor of Saint-Denis, Mathieu Hanotin (PS) who reacted in a long message posted on the networks. If the elected official emphasizes that the assessors must express “political neutrality”, “this is not the case with religious neutrality. Those who invoke any legal argument are therefore wrong, ”he wrote. The elected representative also denounces the reactions of some Internet users.
"I could read on social networks that the presence of this lady in a polling station was illegitimate and scandalous," he continues.
That our civility was ridiculed.
Yet I wonder who is making an act of citizenship in this debate?
The woman who is committed so that democracy can express itself at the ballot box or those who will give her the feeling that she has no place in our Republic?
Those and those who on this election day will, by their actions and their words, weaken our institutions by instrumentalizing a photograph knowingly chosen by a candidate whose intolerance is no longer to be demonstrated?
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After the publication of a photograph of the vote of the candidate of the National Rally in a polling station in Saint-Denis, I would like to recall some fundamental principles: pic.twitter.com/8AH3UPUEhk
- Mathieu Hanotin (@MathieuHanotin) June 20, 2021
The cliché also shocked Sophie Rigard, elected opposition (Place Publique) in Saint-Denis.
In a message posted on Twitter, she condemned the instrumentalization of this woman "soiled by the extreme right while everywhere it is a hassle to open polling stations for lack of assessors or presidents".
Despite the comments, Jordan Bardella had not yet posted any new messages on social media at the end of the day.
Contacted, he did not respond to our requests.
