2024-02-10 18:01:41
“We were surprised – and let’s say it quite shocked – to see that you assimilate golf players to categories of populations that you do not seem to hold in great esteem”: The president of the French Golf Federation, Pascal Grizot, protested in an open letter posted on his federation’s website against a campaign by the La France Insoumise party which, according to him, equates golfers “with the rich and the racists”.
Mathilde Panot, the president of the LFI group in the National Assembly, relayed last Sunday on the social network X the poster campaign of her movement intended to encourage voters to vote in the European elections in June. “The rich vote!” Racists and golfers too. And you ? », she wrote in her message, accompanied by the visuals of this campaign.
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“Disparagement”
“You seem to ignore the sociology of our sport, the practice of which continues to become popular and now brings together more than 600,000 players in France, of which 446,000 are licensed with the ffgolf,” continues the president.
“Golf will be as widely practiced in France in 2023 as handball, basketball and even judo. + friendly + disciplines which do not seem to be the subject of the same denigration on your part”, regrets Pascal Grizot, evoking “fairly demagogic clichés which can be brandished by some”.
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