In the four corners of France, several thousand came to say “not to the far right” without supporting Emmanuel Macron, eight days before the second round of the presidential election who opposed him to Marine Le Pen.
Not a vote for Marine Le Pen!the National Rally candidate (RN, far right), beat the organizers in front of several hundred demonstrators in Lille (north).
We are here […] for society, freedom, but also for climate. It will be a real regression if he comes to powerexplanation to AFP Jean-François Julliard, director general of Greenpeace France in Paris where several thousand people mobilized.
In Lyon (middle-east), where most of the demonstrators were young people, Emma, 23, a student, said she was mobilizing. against trivialization of dangerous ideas, against racism, exclusion, potential dictatorshipand uses the slogan: To those who dare to vote for racist laws, everyone’s answer: resistance!
Marine Le Pen, who spoke to the press this morning in Saint-Rémy-sur-Avre (northwest), estimated that come and show up against the results of an election ay deeply anti-democratic.
” I think it is unpleasant for the French to see their choice disputed in the streets, through demonstrations. “
By rejecting Marine Le Pen, it is a question of preventing the arrival of a social project that destroys the rule of law, the social and united democratic republic that we defend every day.tell in their press release the organizers of the demonstrations.
These are about thirty organizations and unions, such as SOS Racisme, the CGT, the Syndicate of the judiciary or the national union of journalists.
Emmanuel Macron did not survive
In these processions bathed in sunshine, if the demonstrators are all against the far right, they do not forgive the outgoing president.
SOS Racisme activist, Sasha Halgand regrets facing her a Macron/Le Pen duel that young people don’t likebut if Marine Le Pen came to power, there would be fascist militias, harsh laws.
Lucile Muller, a 19-year-old student in Paris, does not dispute the two candidates: We already had the same result five years ago, but we didn’t know Macron. There, we saw police violence, violent laws […] We would have liked to have a choice, with a second round Mélenchon / Macron, with ecological debates for example.
2002 is not, 2022 is still not
But for Aneth Hambert, 25 and environmental activist in Lille, voting for Macron means willingness to choose who we will oppose […] We will have the possibility to organize a strong opposition.
In Paris, a sign is recalled: 2002 is not, 2022 is still notan allusion to the first round of the presidential election 20 years ago.
France was surprised when it discovered the qualification of Jean-Marie Le Pen, the Marine’s father and founder of the National Front (ex-RN) for the second round, had finally been won by conservative candidate Jacques Chirac. Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets to call on Jean-Marie Le Pen to block the ballot box.
In Nice (southeast), a hundred people gathered on Saturday, which was in 2002 we were 20,000 between two roundsrecalled Jean-Pierre Lamort, 77 years old.
Source: Radio-Canada
