On the left, if Sandrine Rousseau or Olivier Faure have expressed their wish to see the new Minister of Solidarity, Damien Abad, leave the government, the attacks are unusually measured. It must be said that the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (NUPES) created around Jean-Luc Mélenchon itself had to face accusations of sexual violence. They concerned the militant Taha Bouhafs, disinvested from his constituency, by his own party a few weeks ago.
The great cause of the quinquennium undermined
At Les Républicains (LR), several elected officials are satisfied to no longer count Damien Abad among them, without however calling for his resignation. “Let his new friends defend him”, discards a deputy. Same story with Christian Jacob: “It’s up to him, in his soul and conscience, to look in the mirror and know what he has to do,” says the president of LR.
More political, Marine Le Pen, sees it as a way to attack Emmanuel Macron: “Hard to imagine that he didn’t know… But he couldn’t resist making a move by poaching a player from the opposing team”, affirms the president of the National Rally, before highlighting the supposed discrepancy between the speech of the president and his actions, violence against women having been erected by the head of state, as the great cause of the first five year term.
As for Éric Zemmour, he said he was “doubtful” and “suspicious” about the methods of Mediapart, who broke the case. On CNews, the president of Reconquest said he was “very uncomfortable” with the accusations against Damien Abad. “He defended himself, he denied, he was not condemned by justice. There was not even a procedure”, explains Éric Zemmour.