{"id":1441617,"date":"2022-04-16T13:30:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T17:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1441617"},"modified":"2022-04-16T13:30:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T17:30:23","slug":"university-president-under-fire-for-telling-students-and-staff-to-vote-against-le-pen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/university-president-under-fire-for-telling-students-and-staff-to-vote-against-le-pen\/","title":{"rendered":"University President Under Fire for Telling Students and Staff to Vote Against Le Pen"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Funiversity-president-under-fire-for-telling-students-and-staff-to-vote-against-le-pen%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1441617&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239980254-e1649958588805-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The president of the University of Nantes has come under fire after circulating an email to students and faculty at the university, in which she called on them to vote against populist presidential candidate Marine Le Pen.<\/p>\n<p>President of the University of Nantes Carine Bernault sent an email to faculty and students on Wednesday stating, \u201cI solemnly call on you to vote on April 24 to block the extreme right and therefore the National Rally.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Bernault noted that her statement was \u201cunusual\u201d but claimed her call was \u201cindispensable in view of the stakes attached to this vote,\u201d newspaper <em>Le Figaro<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lefigaro.fr\/actualite-france\/la-presidente-de-l-universite-de-nantes-appelle-a-voter-contre-marine-le-pen-20220413?utm_medium=Social&#038;utm_campaign=echobox&#038;utm_source=Twitter&#038;origine=VWT16001#Echobox=1649923973-1\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After the email became public, the university president was heavily criticised by several right-wing politicians including National Rally (RN) politician Jordan Bardella, a close ally of Marine Le Pen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe position taken by the President of the University of Nantes, in violation of the rules of neutrality imposed by her office, is gross misconduct. The students are right to be outraged. Be free: do not let your choices be dictated by Emmanuel Macron\u2019s friends!\u201d Bardella, who serves as interim president of the RN while Le Pen campaigns for the presidency, said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A survey released by a Brazilian-based firm this week has revealed that populist leader Marine Le Pen may be pulling ahead of President Emmanuel Macron as France votes in the first round of its presidential elections this weekend.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/565vDPKoFK\">https:\/\/t.co\/565vDPKoFK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1512444867288383495?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>S\u00e9bastien Pilard, spokesman for conservative writer and pundit Eric Zemmour\u2019s Reconquest! party also criticised the university president, saying: \u201cThis message\u2026 is a serious fault that must result in consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Serge Slama, professor of public law at the University of Grenoble Alpes told<em> Le Figaro<\/em> that as a university lecturer, Bernault was within her rights to express her political opinion, but noted: \u201cThe problem is that she is not only a professor, she is also a president. It exercises an official function and represents the university, which implies a certain neutrality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The scandal comes as polls show Le Pen and Macron in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EuropeElects\/status\/1514628580185198603?s=20&#038;t=gVLbN0s3SDjkIZORmH-79w\">a tight race<\/a> for the French presidency in the second round of voting, with one poll even putting Le Pen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/04\/08\/shock-poll-puts-marine-le-pen-ahead-of-macron-in-french-presidential-second-round\/\">slightly ahead<\/a> of the current French president.<\/p>\n<p>Since the result of the first round of the presidential election, several establishment figures have come out in support of President Macron, including former right-wing president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/04\/13\/establishment-en-marche-disgraced-ex-french-president-sarkozy-endorses-emmanuel-macron\/\">Nicolas Sarkozy<\/a> who stated earlier this week he would be voting for Macron.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Marine Le Pen Calls For \u2018Referendum Revolution\u2019 To Hand Power Back To The People<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1NQOpHU4nf\">https:\/\/t.co\/1NQOpHU4nf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1514185494577532937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5><span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><em><strong><span class=\"a-size-large\">Follow Chris Tomlinson on Twitter at\u00a0<span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomlinsonCJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@TomlinsonCJ<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>or email at\u00a0ctomlinson(at)breitbart.com.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president of the University of Nantes has come under fire after circulating an email to students and faculty at the university, in which she called on them to vote<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1441617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1441617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}