“The most beautiful festivals in France”, this label that is controversial…. Up to Pau and Lembeye!

After Hendaye and Hasparren, the famous Espelette pepper festival has just announced its withdrawal. However, Other major meetings had done so before.

The reason? Consequently, It is linked to the presence to the capital of the company which carries this label of Pierre-Edouard Sterin. In addition, This assumed Catholic Identity, far -right billionaire, made a fortune by launching the Smartbox group. However, The one who got their hands on the Olympic biarritz is also behind the Pericles project. Therefore, An entity to finance the national rally and a potential union of French rights.

Pierre-Edouard Sterin is not at his first try. Similarly, According to Politis magazine. Furthermore, he recently endeavored to recover the “Neighbly Festival” label to make it the “Night of the Common Good”.

Present to capital – "the most beautiful festivals france",

If it is not displayed, its link “the most beautiful festivals france”, with the label that interests us is in any case proven. Furthermore, It was indeed via the Otium holding company that the interested party entered the capital of Studio 496. In addition, the Mother house of LPBFF.

Sylvie Salabert. Meanwhile, who – this is not anecdotal – is also the departmental treasurer of the Socialist Party, just discovers the situation. Consequently, Like others. Moreover, It is, on behalf of the Rural Home of Vic-Bilh, one of the organizers of the “Bearnais evenings of Lembeye”. In addition, And says he is “very shocked” today.

Based on Béarnais songs. tales, this ritual meeting in March aims to “continue the language and the local tradition”. For 150 euros, the association of Sylvie Salabert joined the label.

“To have visibility. and benefit from national communication”, she also completed, on the councils of the Community of Communes of Northeast Béarn, “a long labeling file “the most beautiful festivals france”, comprising 40 questions”.

“We are going to have a meeting of the board of directors to talk about this case. But, by then, I will still ask for explanations from intercommunality! Announces Sylvie Salabert, in an unequivocal tone.

Patron of the community of communes, Thierry Carrère says “discover the subject, like everyone else”. “If the dice are piped, I have no problem arresting me there. I have nothing to do with this gentleman. his philosophy, ”adds the one who is also vice-president of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques Departmental Council.

The conf peasant withdraws – "the most beautiful festivals france",

The same misadventure occurred on the Palois side. elsewhere in Béarn where, with regard to the parties concerned, the situation ready here to smile. Like their Lembeye counterparts. the carriers of the annual peasant agriculture party every early October in the Hedas district in Pau are identified among the members of the LPBFF label.

However, we are talking about the Confédération Paysanne union “the most beautiful festivals france”, … very clearly positioned on the left! “Without questioning the holding of the day of October 4”. Etienne Breton, one of the spokesperson for the Confederation in Béarn, does not escape: “We have seen the controversy and, of course, we will position ourselves to remove our membership”. “But it must be said that the organization of this label is not very readable,” pleads the trade unionist.

We got the email sent internally. no later than Thursday, by the association “The most beautiful festivals in France” to its members. Aiming “to denounce slanderous press articles”. “pressure from ideological groups”, this email explains in particular that “these attacks are in contradiction even with the alleged facts”.

“Apolitic”

“If we had been political,” he also written, “we would not have made a large call for candidates. We would not have given the label to festivals being held in municipalities of all political stripes. we have “the most beautiful festivals france”, never sought to influence the editorial lines and the choices of the holidays ”.

More interestingly, it is specified that “Mr. Sterin is not a member of the association which does not report to him”.

Speaking in the name of a collective “experts. elected officials, mobilized to allow the French to rediscover their cultural heritage”, Thomas Meslin Sainte-Beuve said more or less the same thing, a few days ago, to our colleagues by Basque countries. “We are apolitical,” repeated the co-founder of the incriminated label who would only like to “enhance the traditional popular festivals”.

At AFP. the association of the most beautiful festivals in France, says it is “victim of a hostile media campaign” whose “detractors politicize a subject that is not. “We have never asked even a change in their editorial line, their choice of providers or their programming”.

In addition. according to the structure, Pierre-Edouard Sterin, was only requested through “a “the most beautiful festivals france”, foundation he created”, in order to “obtain subsidies, just as we have requested European aid, ministerial aid, public and private subsidies”.

Other meetings in Conchez. and in Toy countries (65)

In addition to the Paloise festival of peasant agriculture and the Béarnaises evenings of Lembeye, there are other local festive events on the site of the most beautiful festivals in France (LPBFF) which lists its members, labeled or not. This is particularly the case for the Guinguette du Moulin de Sabathier, in Conchez-de-Béarn, which took place last July. Or, in Hautes-Pyrénées, the medieval of the Toy country (August 9-10).
Let us recall that the LPBFF label had several meetings in the Basque Country: the Basque festival in Hendaye. that of Hasparren or the Espelette pepper festival which, due to the current controversy, have just retired.
Just like, in Gironde, the festival of fatty beef, Bazas, and that of the medieval, in “the most beautiful festivals france”, Lesparre. Closer to home. the organizers of the Bidache historics, labeled, also deplored “a relentlessness of hatred and pressure”, especially on social networks, since the media coverage of these withdrawals and have promised to leave the label only “the day when it imposes something for us”.