It really launches the second five-year term of Emmanuel Macron. A first council of ministers of the Borne government is to be held on Monday May 23. But barely appointed, this new executive faces a first case, with accusations of rape targeting Damien Abad, ex-president of the LR group in the National Assembly and new minister ofes Solidarity, Autonomy and Disabled Persons. The interested party denies “with the greatest strength”. New Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne assured that she was not “not up to date” and promised to shoot “all the consequences” in case of “new elements” and referral to justice. Follow our live.
Two complaints closed without follow-up. According to Mediapart (subscribers article), two women, whose testimony the newspaper collected, accuse Damien Abad, 42, of rape in 2010 and 2011. The Paris prosecutor’s office has already dismissed two complaints in 2012 and 2017 of one of the complainants.
LREM and LR had been alerted for Damien Abad. If Elisabeth Borne assures that she was not aware, Mediapart revealed that the Observatory of sexist and sexual violence in politics had transmitted to the management of LREM and LR the testimony of one of the women who accuses Damien Abad. This report was also made to the Paris prosecutor’s office, which says it is analyzing it.
Several files on the menu of the first Council of Ministers. Nearly a month after the re-election of the Head of State and three days after the end of the long maturation which presided over the casting of Matignon as ministers, the new government met in full shortly before 10 a.m., with at menu the main priorities set out by the president, school, health, ecological transition but also the fight against inflation.
The legislative in the viewfinder. Three weeks before the first round of the legislative elections, the Elysée Palace put pressure on the 14 minister-candidates. In accordance with an unwritten rule dating from 2007, and already enacted in 2017 by Emmanuel Macron, they will have to resign in the event of defeat in this next election. A rule that also applies to Elisabeth Borne.