DIRECT. New government: the first Council of Ministers meets this morning, against the backdrop of the Abad affair

The essential

• The President of the Republic chairs this morning at 10 a.m. the first Council of Ministers of the new government.

• "The first text examined by the new National Assembly will be on purchasing power", assured Elisabeth Borne yesterday at the JDD.

• Damien Abad, the newly appointed Minister of Solidarity is accused of rape by two women.

  He categorically denies the facts but the affair embarrasses the new government.

• The ministers beaten in the legislative elections will have to resign.

  Fifteen are concerned, including the Prime Minister. 

07:54

Sandrine Rousseau would have voted to authorize the burkini

“The vote was not around the burkini or not, it was around the lack of regulations on clothing at the swimming pool” in Grenoble, “yes I would have voted for it”, advances Sandrine Rousseau.

“What is contrary to respect for women is to prohibit them from swimming pools.

Many women give up bathing because there are injunctions on the body, their body must meet standards", she defends, adding that the fact of "meeting other women" could one day allow women who wear burkinis to stop wearing them.

07:50

Terminal must disconnect Abad for Sandrine Rousseau

“Where is the era of suspicion when Nicolas Hulot was appointed minister when a complaint was dismissed and other women clearly suffered things?

Where is the era of suspicion when PPDA has remained in office for so long?

asks Sandrine Rousseau on RTL.

“Elisabeth Borne must take responsibility and say (to Damien Abad) that he has no place in government,” she decides.

07:47

“As long as we are not certain that he is innocent”…

On RTL, the ecologist Sandrine Rousseau, questioned on the Abad affair, believes that there are “precise and consistent testimonies”.

“Clearly among the Republicans, it was preceded by a reputation”.

"We must send a strong message to women, that their word counts", she said, recalling that "rape is a crime".

“There is something symbolic in politics, as long as we are not certain that he is innocent, he cannot represent the people” as a minister, she believes.

07:28

A precise morning for Borne

At 9 a.m., the transfer of power takes place between Elisabeth Borne and Olivier Dussopt, who succeeds him at the Ministry of Labor.

The Prime Minister is expected at the Elysée Palace for the Council of Ministers at 10 a.m.

On the menu: Emmanuel Macron will repeat the main lines he drew up before the legislative elections: school, purchasing power and essentially ecological transition.

07:20

The Abad case summarized

Damien Abad, former president of the LR group in the National Assembly, who joined the macronie to become Minister of Solidarity, Autonomy and People with Disabilities, faces serious charges of rape.

On Saturday, Mediapart published the testimony of two women who accuse Abad of rape in 2010 and 2011. He denies "with the greatest force".

The Paris prosecutor's office has already dismissed two complaints in 2012 and 2017 from one of the complainants.

Justice said to analyze the report that was made last week. 

07:00

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Good awakening !

First day of the Prime Minister's first Council of Ministers.

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