Paris –
Basketball star Victor Wembanyama joined other prominent French athletes on Thursday in warning against voting for the “extremes” in this weekend’s parliamentary elections.
Polls show that the anti-immigration party Rassemblement National (RN) could become the largest group in parliament and head a government for the first time. This would mean a huge change for France.
“Of course political choices are personal, but I think it is important to distance ourselves from extremes. That is not the direction a country like ours should go in,” said the San Antonio Spurs phenomenon, who is expected to represent France at the Olympic Games in Paris, to reporters in Paris.
