The right -wing deputy integrates the government of Elisabeth Borne, after weeks of speculation and after having announced, Thursday, May 19, to leave his functions as group president of the Republicans and to withdraw his political family.
Le Monde with AFP
In two days, the political situation of Damien Abad, ex-File of the Les Républicains (LR) deputies, will have been clarified. Friday, May 20, the deputy for Ain was appointed Minister of Solidarity, Autonomy and Persons with Disabilities, within the government of Elisabeth Borne.
His appointment confirms speculations concerning his rapprochement with the presidential majority which ran since the defeat of the right in the first round of the presidential election. in a message broadcast on Twitter , the interested party Said “very honored to be called to serve France with Emmanuel Macron and Elisabeth Borne”. “Getting over the cleavages to change the lives of millions of French people: this is the meaning of my commitment, and I will devote all my energy to it as Minister of Solidarity,” wrote the elected official of 42 years. >
Resignation of his duties among the Republicans Thursday
Since the victory of the Head of State in the second round, pressed by his colleagues from LR to clarify his situation, Mr. Abad had walled in silence, being accused by some of his stooges of negotiating his rallying to Emmanuel Macron.
Pressed by his LR colleagues, he clarified his situation in extremis, Thursday, May 19, and slammed the party door, ensuring that there was “no counterpart”, in an interview with Le Figaro. “Yes, I decide today to leave my function as president of the LR group in the assembly for the sake of clarity, consistency and responsibility,” he said, adding: “I remain a man of right, but I leave my LR party. “
While his political family learned ten days ago that no candidate of La République En Marche (LRM) was invested in front of him in the 5 e district of Ain, where he presents himself for his re -election, the president of LR, Christian Jacob, had called him publicly, Thursday, to “get out of ambiguity”, so that he is expressed before knowing whether he would be or not in the new government.
from the center to the right
Damien Abad, who had been eyeing a morocco for a while, posted a firm and vigilant opposition line during the five -year period, but also heard that his group was “force of proposal”. This holder of a “popular and social” right “did not always spare the head of state, whose” main fault “was in his eyes his” disconnection “of the French.
m. Abad had been in 2012 the first elected disabled to sit in the National Assembly – he suffered from a rare disease, arthrogryposes, which blocks its joints and reduces its mobility. He had taken in November 2019 the head of the first opposition group at the Palais-Bourbon, with a hundred elected officials, succeeding this position at Christian Jacob, who became president of the party.
Graduated from Sciences Po Paris, where he joined the UDF, the latter became a group in charge of group in the National Assembly on tax and budgetary issues. Disappointed by the “lack of leadership” of the president of the modem, François Bayrou, which he nevertheless supported for the presidential election in 2007, he won the new center and was elected as the youngest French MEP in 2009.
He joined the UMP – which has since become LR – in 2012, to the Dam of the president of the new center group, Hervé Morin, then in 2015, and until 2017, chairs the department of Ain. Support by Bruno Le Maire during the 2016 primary before the presidential election, he then campaigned for François Fillon. Mr. Abad was also vice-president of his party under the chairmanship of Laurent Wauquiez.
During the LR congress in the fall of 2021, he supported Xavier Bertrand, before campaigning Valérie Pécresse, loyally. The leader of the deputies then noted that his party was “torn between those who wanted to speak to the electorate of Zemmour or the electorate [of] Macron”. His choice is now made.