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Damien Abad, a "catch of war" become a subject of embarrassment for Emmanuel Macron

2022-05-25T18:05:53.414Z


ANALYSIS - The affair saturates the media space, erasing the work carried out by the President and the Prime Minister to compose the government.


Emmanuel Macron would have preferred a more serene start to his second term and a quiet setting for his troops' legislative campaign.

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The revelation of accusations against Damien Abad has been saturating the political and media space for almost a week.

The reception of a government is always a barometer of the political climate and the reaction of public opinion.

However, of the new team, we spoke for two days of the surprise appointment of Pap Ndiaye to Education and, now almost exclusively, of the intimate past of the Minister of Solidarity.

The rest of the "cast" is dropped.

It was not the effect imagined.

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The Abad case functions above all like a boomerang.

The president of the LR group in the Assembly was a "war prize" of macronie.

In the new team he was the emblem - and even the only emblem - of the political enlargement of the majority, a weapon intended to continue to weaken the right and reduce its representation in the National Assembly.

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Source: lefigaro

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