who is Charles de Courson, the man who could bring down Elisabeth Borne?

A specialist in public finance, Charles de Courson joined the benches of the National Assembly in 1993. A place charged with emotion for him. The name of his grandfather, who died in a concentration camp, is inscribed there. At the Palais Bourbon, he is nicknamed the soldier monk, because politics is his whole life. “I am an old bachelor, without a mistress, without a wife and without children. I like to deal with subjects in depth. I don’t like superficiality“, he says.

Positions sometimes very firm

Moderate, he sat on the UDF, the IDI and the New Center before co-founding in 2018 the group Libertés, Indépendants, Outre-mer et Territoires de la Marne (LIOT). Charles de Courson is best known for his sometimes very firm positions in certain cases, such as the Cahuzac affair in 2013, for which he chaired the commission of inquiry. He also fights against arbitration in favor of Bernard Tapie in the Crédit Lyonnais affair, against marriage for all, against the recent anti-breakers law or the forfeiture of nationality after the Paris attacks in 2015. After 30 years in the hemicycle, he is a politician respected by his peers. He will be the first to speak at 4 p.m.