Legislative: the majority finally separates from its deputies accused of harassment

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We now know the names of the first incumbents rejected by the presidential camp. Stéphane Vojetta, ousted from his circo of French people abroad (Spain-Portugal) in favor of Manuel Valls, announced that he would maintain his candidacy as a dissenter. But other cases deserve attention. Targeted by a complaint for sexual assault and moral harassment filed by his deputy and ex-collaborator, also sentenced to the industrial tribunal for unfair dismissal of a collaborator in 2021, Pierre Cabaré (Haute-Garonne) is not reinvested, the journalist Pierre Baudis – son of the former mayor of Toulouse Dominique Baudis – having been preferred to him. Thursday evening, Cabaré (still officially a member of LREM) however seemed to announce its intention to dissent. In the neighboring department of Gironde, it is Benoît Simian who is not reinvested. The chosen one, member of Horizons after leaving the LREM group on the pretext of substantive disagreements, is at the heart of a harassment case against his ex-wife: eighteen months in prison, three years probation and three years of ineligibility were required against him at the end of March and the judgment was reserved for June 23, four days after the second round of the legislative elections. Since the beginning of February, …