Sunday controversy between two political heavyweights, one from the government, the other from the left.
This Sunday, Bruno Le Maire and Jean-Luc Mélenchon strongly opposed by media interposed around information published a few days ago in the columns of
Parisian
.
In an article published on March 13, a few days before Elisabeth Borne spoke in the National Assembly, a right-wing elected official returned to the executive's urgent calls to convince the LRs to support her reform of the retreats.
Remaining anonymous, the MP first explained to our colleagues that she had received several phone calls in the days preceding the final vote, aimed at convincing her to support the government's project.
According to the parliamentarian, Bruno Le Maire himself would have taken his phone, slipping, in passing, that the executive would know how to be “
attentive
” to its territory.
An innuendo to evoke the release of funds for his constituency, in exchange for his support.
Shortly after the publication of the article, however, the deputy came back to this information with our colleagues, explaining that she had "
poorly expressed
": contrary to what she initially said, if the boss de Bercy did try to reach her, as confirmed by her cabinet at Le
Parisien
, he fell on the answering machine of the parliamentarian, without leaving her a message.
The two politicians therefore never discussed.
"Bribing MPs"
Still, the information, false, was taken up in the meantime on the left by certain elected officials, who did not fail to point the finger at the supposed desire of the minister to "
corrupt
" an elected official.
“
Did Minister Bruno Le Maire try to bribe deputies to vote for pension reform?
“, Thus pretended to wonder the deputy Antoine Léaument, on March 16.
“
One of two things: either Le Parisien lied, or there is a corrupting minister at Bercy, who is also acting as an organized gang with Franck Riester's cabinet
“, he added, on Twitter.
On the same day, the boss of the LFI group in the National Assembly, Mathilde Panot, wrote to the Attorney General of the Republic, François Molins, asking him to seize the Court of Justice of the Republic, accusing the minister of "acts that
could constitute the offense of active corruption
”.
The case does not end there, despite the denial of the deputy.
This Sunday, guest of the LCI-RTL-Le Figaro Grand Jury, Jean-Luc Mélenchon also accused the minister "
of calling elected officials and saying to them: 'Say, you're going to vote like this, like that, and we can be arranged
”.
"
It's called putting pressure, it's also condemned by law
," said the former deputy.
He also shared an excerpt from his intervention on Twitter, writing that “
pressuring elected officials to do something against their will is against the law.
This is what Bruno Le Maire did, calling elected officials to tell them what to vote in the National Assembly, in exchange for a possible arrangement
.
What arouse a strong reaction of the main interested party.
Invited on France 3 at the same time as the intervention of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the Minister of the Economy strongly denied the information shared in particular by Mathilde Panot.
"
It's false, it's a lie, and it's sad, not to say revolting
," commented Bruno Le Maire.
“
The deputy [cited in the article] corrected her remarks
,” recalled the member of the government, indignant at the remarks of “
deputies from La France insoumise
” on this affair.
"
Everyone falls on you [...], because we are in a political time of immense confusion, where the lie is worth the truth, where we can say anything",
s''
Then, after his time on set, the minister responded directly to the accusations of the left-wing tribune, on Twitter.
“
The MP went back on her remarks.
Check your accusations before you say them.
I ask you to immediately withdraw your slanderous and defamatory remarks.
Otherwise, I would be forced to sue you for defamation
,” he wrote.
A call that has so far remained unanswered, while other elected members of the majority, such as MP (Renaissance) Xavier Roseren or MEP (Renew Europe) Stéphanie Yon-Courtin, have also demanded a mea culpa from the former presidential candidate, on the blue bird social network.
