“In April, it will be too late”.
More than a hundred personalities from the world of culture, including Oscar-winning actress Juliette Binoche and director Jean-Marc Barr, are calling on left-wing parties to join the Popular Primary, an initiative launched a year and a half ago by two associative activists with the aim of bringing out a single candidacy on the left for the presidential election.
“The competition which is announced between the candidates and the candidates of the left and ecology is not with the height of the stakes of the next presidential election.
(…) To lose five more years would be insane”, write these personalities, including the director of the National Theater of Strasbourg, Stanislas Nordey, or the actors Jean-Pierre Darroussin and Charles Berling, in a column published in the magazine Inrocks.
The poll scheduled for January 27 to 30
Three months before the first round of the presidential election, they call on the seven candidates from the left to submit to the vote of the popular Primary, "the best possible way to win what we have in common, the fight against the disorder climate change and inequality,” they say.
The organizers of this initiative claimed Wednesday 311,000 registered for this vote of “investiture”, scheduled for January 27 to 30 and which must decide between seven pre-selected personalities.
But Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Yannick Jadot and Anne Hidalgo (who chained the volte-face) refused to participate, and find themselves registered in the ballot despite themselves.
Christiane Taubira is ultimately the only tenor in politics to have agreed to participate.
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The signatories also call on candidates to take a greater interest in culture, “greatly forgotten in the debates and programs of candidates and candidates”, and to defend the French cultural exception.
“Culture is not a consumer good like any other, subject to a simple logic of profitability.
It is the responsibility of the State and local communities to defend our cultural exception”, judge the artists.