Gérald Darmanin will file a complaint after “false accusations” of “alleged bargaining” of MP votes

The head of LFI deputies Mathilde Panot took legal action on Tuesday “on facts that could be compared to the corruption of elected officials by Gérald Darmanin” in order to obtain the vote of deputies in favor of her text on immigration.

The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, “will file a complaint for defamation and slander following false accusations concerning alleged bargaining“vote of deputies for the vote on his text on immigration, indicates his entourage to franceinfo, confirming information from Agence France Presse. The complaint was still being drafted, Wednesday December 13, at the start of the morning.

Tuesday, the president of the La France insoumise group in the Assembly, Mathilde Panot, took legal action “on facts that could amount to corruption of elected officials by Gérald Darmanin” in order to obtain the vote of deputies in favor of the immigration bill.

“Bargain for votes to avoid the rejection of his immigration law, against gendarmes, mobile gendarme brigades? These facts, if proven, are a serious attack on democratic exercise!“, she said in a tweet. In her letter to the prosecutor, Mathilde Panot mentions an article by Paris Matchreferring to three LR deputies approached by the Ministry of the Interior.

In the morning, Tuesday, during their weekly press briefing, the environmentalist deputies for their part requested the creation of a commission of inquiry after these press reports on suspicions of “blackmail” or “corruption” of deputies from the Ministry of the Interior.

“We discovered (…) in the press a certain number of extremely disturbing things, in particular that it would have been promised, negotiated in exchange for votes of support for this text, gendarmerie barracks, police stations and what not -I again“, was indignant MP Benjamin Lucas. He proposed to his colleagues “of the Nupes” designate “a resolution requesting the establishment of a parliamentary commission of inquiry to shed light on what would be, if the facts were proven, an attempt at corruption within Parliament, at least blackmail“. In the hemicycle, the boss of the environmentalist deputies Cyrielle Chatelain also denounced the “villainous methods” from the Minister of the Interior, Tuesday.