Laura Laplaud with AFP
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8:52 a.m., May 13, 2022
The campaign for the legislative elections is launched. On the side of the Republic on the Move (LREM), the deputy for the 10th district of Yvelines Aurore Bergé, guest of Europe Matin on Friday, is seeking a second term. She returned to the controversy surrounding the former legislative candidate, Taha Bouhafs.
The legislative battle is just starting and it’s a new hitch for the New People’s Ecological and Social Union (Nupes). The militant journalist Taha Bouhafs, supported by France insoumise (LFI), withdrew his candidacy for the legislative elections in Vénissieux (Rhône) on Tuesday, denouncing “unprecedented attacks”. “It took a long time for this new left-wing alliance to choose not to invest it in the legislative elections, but the simple fact that it was invested demonstrates the fragility and ideology of this new union”, launched the MP the Republic on the march Aurore Bergé on Europe 1 on Friday.
“A sad character”
“All I see are the actions of this sad character,” said the legislative candidate. “They revealed who they were, that is to say, this desire to communitize French society, to fracture it by taking candidates who are clearly in this movement”, she considered about LFI’s decision to invest the journalist.
The candidacy for the legislative elections of Taha Bouhafs continues to cause controversy. La France insoumise announced Wednesday to open an internal investigation for sexual violence against him. Why ? Three women accuse him of sexist and sexual assault. Taha Bouhafs was already convicted of racist insults.
“Are we taking the risk that tomorrow it will be Jean-Luc Mélenchon and that it will be those around him who are at the helm of the country if they have a parliamentary majority? I believe that we cannot not take this risk,” said Aurore Bergé.