On an Australian radio, Scott Morrisson responded to the accusations of dishonesty, including the French president Emmanuel Macron, after the affair of submarines.
Le Monde with AFP.
In itself, the sentence is not directly addressed to Emmanuel Macron. But everyone can put it into perspective and interpret it as an answer to the accusations made by the French president against Scott Morrison after the affair of submarines, who strongly shake the diplomatic relations between France and Australia.
In questioning the fact of having ever lied in public life, the Australian Prime Minister replied, Friday, November 12, to a reporter of Melbourne 3AW radio: “I do not think I have [lies], no , no “.
This statement responds ricochetly with Mr. Macron who recently accused the leader of the Australian government to openly lied to him about a 55 billion euro contract on twelve submarines, abandoned without warning in September.
The French president, who says he has discovered at the last moment that Australia secretly negotiated an agreement on nuclear-powered submarines with the United States and the United Kingdom, affirmed to Australian journalists. Beginning of the month: “I know” that Scott Morrison lied to me.
A major topic on the Australian political scene
The predecessor and rival in the Liberal Party of Scott Morrison, Malcolm Turnbull, fueled the controversy by ensuring that Mr. Morrison had the reputation of lying. The sincerity of the Prime Minister has become a major debate on the Australian political scene and a potential weakness for Mr. Morrison who could shine a second term in the May elections.
But Mr. Morrison swept the question: “I learned in public life, over a long time, not to have the leather too thin”. The head of the government ensures that these accusations have not disrupted it and that it was certain to have made the right decision by breaking the commitment to French submarines to ensure the national defense of its country.
“I was not impressed by the fact that it could disturb some people and crumple certain susceptibilities,” he insisted, stressing that the American technology of nuclear propulsion submarines had not been shared with another country since 1958 and an agreement with the United Kingdom.