Dupond-Moretti, a checkered political career since his first steps in the Assembly

The decision has been made. This Wednesday, November 29, the Court of Justice of the Republic acquitted the Minister of Justice, Éric Dupond-Moretti, prosecuted for “illegal appropriation of interests.” The end of a thorny legal episode for the former tenor of the bar whose career as Minister of Justice has not ceased to be full of events. And this from the beginning.

This is what the extract Dupond-Moretti: 3 years of confrontation , the long format of BFMTV Ligne Rouge broadcast this Wednesday, November 29 at 9 p.m. Backward turn. In July 2020, newly appointed, Éric Dupond-Moretti took his first steps in the chamber of the National Assembly.

For his first question session to the government, on July 8, 2020, the Minister of Justice wanted to deal with his entry on the scene. A first destabilizing experience: from his first intervention, the deputies booed him.

“Please. It’s already complicated for me, it’s the first time,” he tries to reason with them for the first time.

Before trying again later: “I have a keen sense of contradiction and respect for the words of others, I would like you to at least let me express myself.”

“Very vulnerable”

For Benjamin Duhamel, political journalist at BFMTV, “what draws attention in his first intervention, and what demonstrates his ignorance of the political and parliamentary world, is that he has difficulties managing the cauldron that is the chamber.”

And he adds: “Those who watch questions to the government on television tell themselves that they have to go up, take the microphone and respond to the deputies. What they need to know is that in reality we don’t hear anything, there is absolute madness.” racket.”

“When you have just been appointed minister and you are not used to it, it can have a strange effect,” emphasizes Benjamín Duhamel.

Mathieu Delahousse, senior reporter for the obs, “Suddenly” he discovers Éric Dupond-Moretti “very vulnerable.”

“He doesn’t understand when someone cuts him off. He’s like a rabbit in the headlights, which is not his usual trait,” he concludes.