After the reshuffle which led to the ousting of Damien Abad, the Prime Minister explained this affair to the magazine “Elle”.
In private, with Paris Match, she compared him to a cannonball and hoped that Damien Abad, targeted by rape charges immediately after his appointment to the government, would resign on his own, for the sake of the collective. Finally at the end of the post-legislative reshuffle, Monday, the Minister of Solidarity was not reappointed to his post. The ex-war prize from the ranks of the LR will only have spent a month and a half in the government.
“Outside the government, Damien Abad will be able to defend himself and justice will be able to do its job calmly”, declared the Prime Minister to the magazine “Elle” after the reshuffle. The Damien Abad case is a “complicated subject”. “It is essential for women to speak out, and for them to file a complaint. It is also essential that the definition and search for responsibilities be the work of justice”. “It is justice that must be able to decide and not stop at anonymous testimonies through the press”, she explains again before adding “afterwards, a certain number of testimonies deserve to be taken into account. account”.
“There are behaviors that we do not want to see”
More generally, the Prime Minister adds a new requirement: “a duty to set an example for political leaders”. “I think politicians or officials are simply not expected to be criminally unprincipled. They are expected to be exemplary. Everyone must realize that the world has changed, and fortunately. Including in the field of what is not criminally reprehensible, there are behaviors that we do not want to see.