The “rebellious” deputies want this commission of inquiry, which still has to meet certain admissibility criteria, makes it possible to establish how Uber could “establish itself [in fance] in defiance of the regulations in force” and To uncover the role played by Emmanuel Macron.
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Promised thing, thing due. The deputies of La France Insoumise (LFI) announced Tuesday, November 29, the launch of a commission of inquiry on the “Uber files” and the role of Emmanuel Macron “in the establishment of Uber in France”, thanks to the right available to each group of deputies to create such a body each year.
The elected officials “rebellious” had scored a “resolution proposal” for this purpose in first place of their day of “parliamentary niche”, on November 24, which reserved the right to decide on the agenda in the ‘Hemicycle. However, they had removed it at the last moment, to give other texts a chance to be examined in the time allocated.
The group has therefore “made the decision to exercise its right of draw to allow the establishment of the” Uber files “commission of inquiry,” he said in a statement on Tuesday, adding that if The latter is born, it would be chaired by the deputy Danielle Simonnet.
“Democratic necessity”
This commission of inquiry, which still has to meet certain admissibility criteria, “is a democratic necessity”, had pleaded the group’s deputies during a presentation of their proposal.
According to them, she will have to establish how Uber was able to “establish himself in defiance of the laws and regulations in force” and update the role of the “Minister of the Economy of the time, Emmanuel Macron”, in this implantation .
As part of the “Uber files”, an investigation based on thousands of internal documents in Uber, MO12345lemonde had revealed the existence of a “secret deal” between Uber and Emmanuel Macron when he was Minister of the Economy , to help the American company to set up in France.
The presidential camp had described the proposal as a commission of inquiry on this subject of “conspirator”, and filed numerous amendments to oppose it, before its withdrawal by LFI.
“I completely defended this opening of the market and I will defend it tomorrow”, had supported Emmanuel Macron about the “Uber files”, during an interview with TF1 and France 2 on July 14. “I do not have a temperament to be under influence,” he also said, referring to criticism on its proximity to the platform lobby at the time, before considering that the action of the government had “opened the market in a balanced way”. The president had not expressed himself on the lack of transparency of the relationship he maintained with Uber.