Mbappe also urged young people to vote at a “crucial moment” in French history.
France's forward #10 Kylian Mbappe looks on during an MD-1 training session at Paul Janes Stadium in Duesseldorf on June 16, 2024, on the eve of their UEFA Euro 2024 Group D football match against Austria. : France was on Sunday bracing for a frenetic fortnight of election campaigning for snap polls called by President Emmanuel Macron to combat the far right, as star footballer Kylian Mbappe waded into the febrile environment with a warning not to vote for extremes.
The outcome of the poll remains far from clear, with many in France still baffled over why Macron called an election that could leave the far-right National Rally leading the government and its leader Jordan Bardella, 28, as prime minister.But another likely outcome is a hung parliament with no overall majority followed by weeks of coalition-building and potentially even more elections.
“Today we can all see that extremists are very close to winning power and we have the opportunity to choose the future of our country,“ Mbappe said.France’s men’s football team has long been seen as a beacon for diversity in the country. Late on Saturday, the French Football Federation urged against “any form of pressure and political use of the French team”.
A new left-wing alliance, the New Popular Front that takes in Socialists and hard-leftists, faced its first crisis over the weekend after some prominent MPs from the hard-left France Unbowed party found they had not been put forward to stand again.
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