The Renaissance proposal to ban demonstrations before major events goes badly on the left

2023-09-10 16:42:04

Ban “demonstrations” and “strike notices” before major sporting events… The proposal from Renaissance MP Karl Olive, this Sunday morning, to ban “demonstrations” and “strike notices” before major sporting events has sparked controversy indignation on the left but not only.

“We are going to have the Olympic Games, we are going to have four billion viewers, and we are still going to be blinded because a minority comes to whistle, comes to strike in an opportune way… Besides, I would be in favor of exceptional laws on the subject, ”said the deputy of Yvelines, a former sports journalist, on France Info on Sunday morning.

“More democracy not more autocracy”, pleads Olivier Faure

The elected official specified that these exceptional laws would target “demonstrations” and “notice of strikes” citing as an example the disturbances before the final of the Football Champions League last year in Saint-Denis.

The opposition immediately reacted, seeing it as a retaliatory measure, referring to the whistles and boos which accompanied a speech by Emmanuel Macron on Friday at the Stade France during the opening of the Rugby World Cup.

“When 80,000 spectators who do not know each other whistle at the President of the Republic, the wise man questions the reasons rather than proposing an exceptional law. The answer is more democracy not more autocracy”, wrote on X (formerly Twitter) the first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure.

When 80,000 spectators who do not know each other whistle at the President of the Republic, the wise man questions the reasons rather than proposing an exceptional law. The answer is more democracy not more autocracy. https://t.co/KYIMK5uduS

— Olivier Faure (@faureolivier) September 10, 2023

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RN not favorable either

“Soon the removal of vocal cords to prevent booing against King Macron? “, asked LFI coordinator Manuel Bompard, while PCF spokesperson Ian Brossat asked: “After the anti-pot orders, the anti-whistle law? “.

On the other side of the political spectrum, RN deputy Jordan Guitton denounced a “dangerous authoritarian tendency” while LR senator Alain Houpert mocked a “vassalage” which “no longer has limits… not even that of ridicule “.

Quickly, Karl Olive made it clear to X that he was not “talking” about banning whistles. “Prohibiting strikes – in transport for example – on the eve and day before major international events does not seem incoherent to me,” he maintained.