This Wednesday evening, PSG could be crowned champion of France for the tenth time in its history in a certain indifference. His lead at the top of the L1 leaves no doubt about the outcome of the season and the news will anyway be dominated by the duel between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, the two candidates in the race for the second round. presidential election on Sunday.
Traditionally, this debate between the two personalities who came out on top in the first round is held on the Wednesday before the final ballot. But the LFP could not take this into account when it drew up its calendar, on April 20, 2021, since the dates of the presidential election (April 10 and 24, 2022) and the legislative elections (June 12 and 19, 2022) did not only became known on July 13, 2021, almost three months later.
Difficulty keeping up with current events
It was unimaginable to turn everything upside down once the dates of the presidential election were known, given the difficulty of drawing up a calendar, with the imperatives of FIFA (national teams) and UEFA (European cups). On the side of the LFP, it is explained that it is in any case impossible to take into account all the news before fixing the dates of the matches of L1. And that if this weekday day did not take place this Wednesday evening, it should have been scheduled for mid-January, in the middle of winter, and that it favors spring.
The “carom” between the L1 and politics will also continue since the poster for Sunday evening on Prime Video (Reims-OM) will take place shortly after the revelation of the winner of the presidential election.
