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A minister indicted should not necessarily leave the government, theorizes Olivier Véran

2022-10-05T15:14:11.949Z


An indictment of a minister should no longer systematically result in the departure of the government, the spokesperson for the executive said on Wednesday.


An indictment of a minister should no longer systematically be worth leaving the government, said Wednesday the spokesperson for the executive Olivier Véran, assuring that the Keeper of the Seals and the Secretary General of the Elysee Palace retained the "confidence" of Elisabeth Borne and Emmanuel Macron.

The Minister of Justice Éric Dupond-Moretti was referred this week to the Court of Justice of the Republic, while the Secretary General of the Presidency Alexis Kohler was indicted for illegal taking of interests, without being forced to leave their post.

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"There is too much of a tendency to confuse indictment and conviction", pleaded Olivier Véran to the press after the Council of Ministers.

“Should we dismiss someone who is responsible because there is an indictment?

(…) We consider not”, he added, stressing that an indictment should precisely make it possible to shed light on the facts alleged against a person.

"The Minister of Justice has the full confidence of the Prime Minister to continue working, the Secretary General of the Elysée has received the confidence of the President", further assured the government spokesman.

Reversal of doctrine

When he was a candidate for a first five-year term in 2017, Emmanuel Macron said on the set of France 2 that, "in principle", a minister should "leave the government" in the event of indictment.

But this “principle” has not always been strictly applied.

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Asked about a reversal of doctrine, Olivier Véran also felt that there was "the question of the principle" and that "of its concrete application".

“You look at the grounds for the indictments, you look at the severity of the file, in this case, whether in the file that occupies Mr. Dupond-Moretti or the file that occupies Mr. Alexis Kohler, the facts which are reproached do not appear not of a proportion justifying the exclusion of any form of public responsibility and investment in the service of the general interest”, he argued.

“Look at the number of indictments that lead to dismissals and acquittals, what do we say to these people who sometimes for two or three years have been deprived of acting, of working in the service of the general interest?

“Asked Olivier Véran, before launching:” Watch out for the drift of the model!

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Source: leparis

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