While the "Uberfiles" affair has shaken the Elysee Palace and stirred up the political spectrum for a few hours - the Le
Monde
investigation claims that Emmanuel Macron would have had privileged ties with Uber when he was boss of Bercy between 2014 and 2016 -, François Hollande returned to the accusations against his former Minister of the Economy.
In short confidences granted to
Liberation
,
the former President of the Republic explains that “
there has never been, at the level of the Elysée, the knowledge of the slightest deal.
“Before specifying that if an agreement has indeed been sealed between Emmanuel Macron and the VTC platform, “
the Élysée was not (
at the time,
Editor's note) not aware.
»
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According to the daily
,
the exchanges between the minister and the leaders of Uber would have resulted in a secret agreement to facilitate the establishment of the VTC company in France.
If the current presidential majority and the executive are on the defensive, the oppositions were quick to react.
In particular the left and LFI who denounced a President of the Republic close to “
big capital
”, in the words of LFI deputy Bastien Lachaud.
His parliamentary colleague Alexis Corbière, for his part, did not rule out the idea of a
"commission of inquiry"
to "
shed all the light
" on this affair.
A structure within which François Hollande says he is ready to testify.
Contrary to what
Le Monde indicates,
the former head of state also points out that he has "
no memory
" of having met one of the founders of Uber, Travis Kalanick, in February 2014.