The accusations of rape which aim for the Minister of Solidarity disrupts the return of the first Borne Government.
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Again and again. Like the impression that history repeats itself. After a first five -year term in which he regularly found himself in difficulty on the issue of women’s rights, Emmanuel Macron begins the second, being again on the defensive on this subject. While he said, during the last presidential campaign, wanting to redo gender equality the “great cause of his new five-year term”, the head of state is forced to decide an extremely sensitive case, only a month After his re-election: his new Minister of Solidarity, Autonomy and People Disabled, Damien Abad, can he remain at his post, despite the accusations of rape against him?
The thorny question leads the start of the government, which met for its first council of ministers on Monday, May 23, only three days after the announcement of its composition. To the point that Tuesday, May 24, several feminist organizations, including the observatory of sexist and sexual violence in politics and the collective all, call to demonstrate, in Paris against what they describe as “government of shame”.
In question: the appointment as minister of Damien Abad, despite the testimonies of two women, in an article published on Saturday by Mediapart , who accuse him of sexual violence In 2010 and 2011. Monday, the ex-president of the Les Républicains group (LR) in the National Assembly once again refuted these attacks. “I have never raped a single woman in my life,” he said since his fief of Ain, where he is a candidate for the legislative elections. Asked about a possible departure from the government, Mr. Abad launched to the press: “Should an innocent man resign? says his handicap prevents him from committing such acts. For the moment, no conviction has been pronounced. Two complaints were undoubtedly classified in 2012 and 2017 but justice says it analyzes a new report.
“Justice is the only one to be able to decide”
Sufficient, in the eyes of the opposition, to justify his departure from the government. Monday morning, the boss of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, invited the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, to separate from Mr. Abad because “The Word of Women must be respected”. “Elisabeth Borne should tell him that he has no place,” abounded the ecologist Sandrine Rousseau. The case echoes the case of Taha Bouhafs, who withdrew his candidacy for rebellious France (LFI) in the legislative elections before the existence of an internal investigation was revealed, after accusations of sexual violence.
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