The Les Républicains party is trying to distance himself from the former president of the group in the National Assembly, rallied to the presidential majority and any new Minister of Solidarity.
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He may have already left them to join the government as Minister of Solidarity, Autonomy and People with Disableds, Damien Abad continues to arouse discomfort on the right. The outgoing deputy of the Ain, significant taken from the presidential majority within the Les Républicains (LR) party, is the object, according to Revelations of mediapart , d ‘Rape accusations by two women. Facts that would have occurred in 2010 and 2011. The information site reports, in addition to the words of the persons concerned, that a report was made to the party leadership by the observatory of gender -based and sexual violence. Within LR, many elected officials, embarrassed, claim to have “fallen from their chair” by reading Mediapart.
sent to his official messaging of the National Assembly, the report thus escaped the Secretary General of the Aurélien Pradié Party. “I never consult this box in which I receive 2,000 emails per week, if they had wanted to seize me, they had other ways to contact me and each time it was the case I acted “Explains the Lot MP. Claims to have discovered everything about the case in the press article. Admittedly, noise of corridors on a sometimes moved behavior of Damien Abad, Aurélien Pradié indicates having heard. He even confronted, at the bend of a corridor, his colleague on guts that he would have made to a parliamentary collaborator. But the elected official of the Ain denied, the collaborator did not appear and the case stopped there. Of rape, or behaviors reprehensible by justice, Aurélien Pradié believes that he has never been aware.
public complaint
Evoked in an article by Closer in 2017, the first complaint was however public, circulated cheerfully and was widely commented on within LR. Christian Jacob, the party leader, had also known it at that time. In the time Damien Abad and himself clashed for the presidency of the LR group in the National Assembly. “I had questioned him and he replied that there was nothing,” recalls the deputy of Seine-et-Marne who also assures that Mr. Abad had said that he was not heard by the police While it was. “I had no way to check, and since nothing at all,” says the LR boss. Damien Abad also remembers this conversation and claims to have spoken of it himself to Mr. Jacob.
More generally, there are many within LR to claim that the affirmation that “everyone knew” is “absolutely false”. Several elected officials, including women, indicate that if they had been aware or noted inappropriate behaviors “they would have spoken to each other”. Many also believed that the handicap of Damien Abad who, recalls an elected official, requires a third person for many daily tasks, prevented him from having moved gestures.
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