The Minister of Solidarity, accused of rape by several women after his appointment, won the legislative elections in the 5th district of Ain with 57.86 % of the votes against the candidate of the Nuts, Florence Pisani (42, 14 %).
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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 Persons with Disabilities, was re -elected deputy for the 5th district of Ain with 57.86 % of the votes, faced with the candidate of the new Ecological and Social People’s Union (NUPPES ), Florence Pisani (42.14 %).
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 56.4 % of the vote, before being re -elected in 2017 under the LR label with 67.02 % of the votes cast. On June 12, he had arrived at the top of the first round with 33.38 % of the votes, against 23.54 % for his left opponent. 2>
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 appointment to government, 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, on the other hand, said, Wednesday, May 25, that he did not open a preliminary investigation, “in the state”.
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 the “confidence” of voters during the legislative elections. On June 14, Mediapart revealed a new testimony of a third woman who accused Mr. Abad of an attempted rape in 2010. The minister denounced to AFP the “carefully chosen calendar of these publications” and “partiality partiality “From the Mediapart investigation, which, according to him, has a” political “motivation. “As for the reported allegations, they revolt me and I categorically refute them,” added Mr. Abad in a message transmitted to the press agency. 2>
from the UDF to LR to the macronist shores
m. Abad had been, in 2012, the first elected disabled to sit in the National Assembly. He had taken the lead of 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 Ain department.
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 .