Accused of having pressured an LR deputy, Bruno Le Maire threatens Jean-Luc Mélenchon to sue him “for defamation”
Did the Ministry of Economy and Finance put pressure on an LR MP to persuade her to vote in favor of the pension reform? At Parisianin an article published on March 13 and updated the next day, a right-wing elected official explained, at first, having received “calls“, the days before the final vote, aimed at convincing her to support the government’s project. According to this, Bruno Le Maire himself would have taken his phone, slipping, in passing, that the executive might be “attentiveto his territory. An innuendo to evoke the release of funds for his constituency.
Since then, the MP in question has come back to this information with our colleagues, explaining that she “badly expressed“: Contrary to what the elected official said at first, if the boss of Bercy tried to reach her, he fell on her answering machine, without leaving a message, and the two representatives therefore never discussed , confirmed the member and the minister’s office to our colleagues.
Still, the information, false, has meanwhile been taken up on the left. “Did Minister Bruno Le Maire try to bribe deputies to vote for pension reform?“, pretended to wonder the deputy Antoine Léaument, on March 16. 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 “facts that may constitute the offense of active corruption».
Similarly, this Sunday, several days following the denial of the deputy, to the Grand Jury LCI-RTL-Le Figaro, Jean-Luc Mélenchon accused the minister “to call elected officials and tell them: “Hey, you’re going to vote like this, like that, and we can work it out». «It’s called pressuring, it’s also condemned by law“, dropped the former deputy. He also shared an excerpt from his intervention on Twitter, writing that “pressuring elected officials to do something once morest their will is once morest 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.».
On France 3, this Sunday, the Minister of the Economy strongly denied this information. “It’s wrong, it’s a lie, and it’s sad, not to say revoltingcommented Bruno Le Maire. “The MP corrected her remarks“, recalled the member of the government, indignant at the words of”deputies of La France insoumiseon this case. “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“, he was offended in Sunday in politics.
On Twitter, the minister also responded to statements by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, made that same day. “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 have to sue you for defamation.“, he wrote.
