“Cancer is a political disease”: Mathilde Panot creates controversy by refusing to wear the pink October ribbon

In this month of Pink October, and therefore of promotion of breast cancer screening, the president of the La France insoumise group at the National Assembly Mathilde Panot posted a video on X which did not fail to provoke a reaction.

“I will not wear the Pink October ribbon, because we no longer want to fall ill for the profits of multinationals who have already been given licenses to kill for too long,” she declared in this three-minute video in which she discusses in turn insecticides, Israel, macronism, in the same way as breast cancer. Before concluding: “we do not want a rosy October, but an angry October”, because, according to her, “cancer is a political disease.”

“Aren’t you ashamed?” reacted to this post the Minister of Equality between Women and Men Aurore Bergé. The vice-president of the UDR and founder of the Éclats de femme association Claire Geronimi denounced the exploitation of Pink October and the fight against breast cancer to “serve its political ideology”: “LFI definitely has no limits. What a shame.” Aurélien Rousseau, former Minister of Health, described this staging as “indecent”.