Why La France Insoumise doesn't just like the Olympics | EUROtoday

BSoon the Olympic Games will finish. This monumental success could have woke up a uncommon feeling of patriotism among the many French. In the face of this common enthusiasm, a silence persists. There is not any information of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, chief of La France insoumise (LFI), or Manuel Bompard, LFI deputy of Bouches-du-Rhône. An oversight? A trip? A malaise?

Not a phrase concerning the rising star Léon Marchand, nor concerning the legend Teddy Riner… aside from a number of well mannered tweets from Mathilde Panot, LFI MP for Val-de-Marne, or Sébastien Delogu, elected consultant for Bouches-du-Rhône, congratulating the French athletes, the Insoumis are preserving a low profile.

Some even favor criticism: the Olympics are a price system against theirs. Patriotism, competitors, celebration of inequalities in efficiency, capitalism… Not precisely a program to make the far left dream.

Against the best of common peace

Arnaud Saint-Martin, LFI MP for Seine-et-Marne, for instance, states on X that “the time has come for nationalist regression”.

“I published this tweet after two days of broadcasting on public service channels. Only the feeds concerning French athletes were broadcast,” he explains. According to the elected official, the protection by France Télévisions could be too chauvinistic, as a result of it centered solely on the performances of French athletes, whereas the Games ought to, he believes, promote solidarity between states and an internationalist excellent.

For the elected Insoumis, “the nationality of the athletes does not matter, only performance should count”. Thus, the Olympic Games would put nations in competitors, reasonably than athletes, and would go towards the best of common peace…

“Sports business”

Left-wing essayist Mathieu Slama deplores “people who de facto support the French rather than others.” What bothers him is “this space of forced, depoliticizing unanimity,” he fumes. Mathilde Panot says the identical factor. She welcomes the presence of international athletes reasonably than publicly supporting the French delegation on the night of the opening ceremony.

Already on July 25, La France Insoumise launched a “popular commission of inquiry” on the social, financial and ecological implications of the Olympic Games. The conclusions are promised for the parliamentary session in September.
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The mannequin of the Olympic and Paralympic Games would immediately have “nothing more to do with the cohesion and pleasure of sport: it consecrates the sport business” they clarify. While Valérie Pécresse, president of the Île-de-France area, or Marine Tondelier, nationwide secretary of the Ecologists celebration, rejoice this international occasion, Alma Dufour, Insoumise MP for Seine-Maritime, denounces “the colossal expense”.

She significantly regrets “the colossal investments made to make the Seine swimmable” whereas “it rains in high schools, and there are problems with elevators and unsanitary conditions in social housing.” The LFI elected consultant for Seine-Saint-Denis Aurélie Trouvé believes for her half within the HuffPost that “behind the beautiful images of the 2024 Olympics, tons of kids cannot access sports.”

“A radical left culture against competitive sports”

For the Insoumis subsequently, Olympism – and its motto “Citius, Altius, Fortius” (Faster, Higher, Stronger) –, which values ​​self-improvement and excellence, wouldn’t be pushed by noble values.

ALSO READ La France insoumise is simply glad when France is doing badlyThe glorification of nationwide efficiency could be seen as reinforcing a neoliberal ideology of “every man for himself” and an absence of curiosity in athletes who don’t come from our nation, to the detriment of collective and solidarity values. The nationalist and patriotic attitudes of the taking part States would attenuate the best of common peace.

An ideological place that the French political scientist Philippe Marlière explains: “There is a radical left-wing culture that is anti-competitive sports, which associates sporting events with capitalist consumerism.” For LFI, the Paris Olympics, and different competitions earlier than them, subsequently consult with “nationalism, sexism, a spirit of individualistic competition.”