The Minister of Solidarity, accused of rape by two women shortly after his appointment and candidate for his re -election, came at the top of the first round of the legislative elections in the 5th district of Ain. He will face the candidate of the Nuts, Sunday June 19, during the second round.
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He wanted to make these legislative elections “the justice of the peace” of his maintenance in the government of Elisabeth Borne, taking into account the two rape accusations which have been targeting him since May 21. Damien Abad, Minister of Solidarity, Autonomy and People with Disabilities, qualified in mind for the second round in the 5th district of Ain with 33.38 % of the votes, under the colors of the presidential majority. The outgoing deputy will face Florence Pisani (23.54 %), candidate of the new Ecological and Social People’s People’s Union (Nuts), Sunday, June 19.
The former leader of the group of deputies Les Républicains (LR) in the National Assembly, who left his political family on the eve of his appointment to the government, has been a deputy for this constituency since 2012. First Candidate of the new center (NC), he had been elected for the first time with 56.40 % of the vote, before being re -elected in 2017 under the LR label with 67.02 % of the votes cast.
accused of rape by two women
m. ABAD assets a ministerial morocco for a long time and its rallying to Emmanuel Macron sparked the ire of his former political family. But this first controversy was quickly swept away. In the aftermath of his ministerial appointment, Mediapart revealed that the deputy was accused of rape by two women, for alleged facts dating back to 2010 and 2011.
The interested party, suffering from arthrogryposes – disease which reduces his mobility – denied the facts as soon as they are published, considering that it was “forced” “to put [s] we handicap forward” to justify that ” facts [him] were materially impossible “. The Paris prosecutor’s office, meanwhile, said on Wednesday May 25, that he did not open a preliminary investigation, “as it is”.
To justify the maintenance of the minister in the government despite criticism, the Head of State affirmed that “the protection of the presumption of innocence is important” and that “Damien Abad is entitled to it like any citizen”, In an interview with the regional daily press, Friday, June 3. Damien Abad has given it to the results of the ballot boxes and “confidence” of voters during the legislative elections.
from the UDF to LR to the macronist banks
m. Abad had been, in 2012, the first elected disabled to sit in the National Assembly. He had taken the lead in the first opposition group at the Palais-Bourbon, with a hundred elected officials, LR, in November 2019, succeeding this position at Christian Jacob, who became president.
The deputy started his political career at the center, before joining the moderate wing of LR. It was to Sciences Po Paris that he joined the UDF in 2007, before becoming, when he was released, group manager in the National Assembly on tax and budgetary issues.
Disappointed by the “lack of leadership” by François Bayrou, he won the new center and became the youngest French MEP in 2009. Elu Rhône -Alpes Regional Advisor in 2010, he finally joined the UMP – which has since become LR – In 2012, after his accession to the deputation. In 2015, and until 2017, he also took the lead in the department of Ain.
While he left LR after a bitter presidential defeat and weeks of silence, his former political camp had invested in front of him, for the legislative elections, Julien Martinez, municipal councilor of Oyonnax and close to Xavier Bertrand .