"By making RN deputies infrequent, LFI and Aurore Bergé designate their voters as under-citizens"

FIGAROVOX.

- LFI and PS deputies refuse to play football in the National Assembly team for a charity match because RN deputies are taking part.

Indeed, they want to prevent the "trivialization" of the extreme right.

What does this translate to the relationship of the left to democracy?

David DESGOUILLES.

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Above all, it reflects a certain panic.

For the first time, the RN has 89 deputies and they behave in the National Assembly respecting all democratic and republican forms.

That is to say exactly the opposite of what has been described since the 1980s when the Front National was emerging in French political life.

The sanitary cordon that the left has imposed could then yield and it is unbearable for its promoters.

Therefore, we must reaffirm its necessity and this charity football match is the victim, as courtesy had been when certain rebellious deputies did not wish to greet their counterparts in the RN.

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But to come back to your specific question, this reflects a sectarianism and a relationship to democracy, to universal suffrage, which has always been unhealthy.

We sit on the result of the vote, we make the citizen voting for the RN a sub-citizen since the deputy he sends to the Assembly is not “normal”.

And we are pursuing a theater, that of anti-fascism, which Lionel Jospin very honestly described twenty years ago.

Moreover, Alexis Corbière himself participated in rugby matches with Louis Aliot without any problem during the last legislature.

This clearly demonstrates that the current unrest is a matter of theatrical representation.

Finally, this reflects a weak faith in one's own convictions.

If we believe in what we think and what we say, how can we believe that this could be called into question by the fact of greeting a political adversary, or wearing the same shirt during a football match?

Isn't it precisely so as not to refuse to see firsthand, in the privacy of a locker room, how ridiculous this theater is?

What is worse than this tendency to give lessons constantly, to speak to one's fellow citizens as if to children, when one is not capable of behaving like an adult oneself?

David Desgouilles

Aurore Bergé, president of Renaissance, also "

Madame Bergé always adds to this theater and the worst thing about her is that she may really believe in it.

No doubt the fact that it comes from the right is not unrelated to this zeal.

She may fear that she will be reminded of participation in Nicolas Sarkozy's campaigns when Patrick Buisson was part of his brains.

What good minds have named "the extreme center", an expression taken up on its own by Emmanuel Macron himself between the two rounds of the presidential election, has always had a problem with universal suffrage, from Louis-Philippe to Adolphe Thiers, and Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, who castigated the use of a referendum on European construction, to Renaissance.

One only has to see their reactions, in tune with Ursula von der Leyen,

However, Madame Bergé did not have words harsh enough for LFI in the hemicycle splitting one day with several “enough!”

declaimed with emphasis.

Today, she is in tow of Mathilde Panot.

It's laughable.

Are these controversies consistent with the concerns of the French in a context of inflation and the energy crisis?

Obviously not.

And it is all the more damaging that the French, those who play football in their towns and villages every weekend, do not worry about their partner's ballot when they pass him or come give him a hug after a goal.

All this reflects a disconnection from reality, while all these little people pretend to teach a lesson by indicating the ideal temperature of housing, or wearing a turtleneck in the office.

I fear that these attitudes will become unbearable in the eyes of many French people and that this will not make it possible to reduce the democratic divide, characterized by an ever-increasing abstention.

What is worse than this tendency to give lessons all the time, to speak to one's fellow citizens like children, when one does not