A surprising appointment. Targeted by several accusations of rape, Damien Abad was appointed president of the France-Lebanon friendship group in the National Assembly, denounced the environmental deputy Sophie Taillé-Polian, information confirmed by the Renaissance group on BFMTV.com.
“He is a deputy like the others, he ran for president,” explains the Renacimiento group to the Assembly.
Always related to the presidential group, the deputy – accused by four women – had been very discreet since his return to the National Assembly last July.
Elisabeth Borne had demanded his resignation from the government, four days after a judicial investigation was opened against him. Damián Abad, who had denounced “ignoble slanders” upon his departure from the Ministry of Solidarity, he denies all charges.
“Shocked” environmentalists
Environmental MP Sophie Taillé-Polian says she is “very shocked by this decision by the Renaissance group.”
“I want Aurore Bergé to give us a moral lesson on Adrien Quatennens, but we can’t do it like that,” the elected official said, interviewed by BFMTV.com.
The friendship groups aim to “weave links between French and foreign parliamentarians” and “are also actors in France’s foreign policy and instruments of the international influence of the National Assembly”, recalls the administration of the Palais Bourbon.
If the office of the National Assembly decides collectively on the presidencies assigned to each movement, it is in fact each group that decides internally on the allocation of the presidencies. The choice of Damien Abad may be all the more surprising since the Macronista deputies had already chickened out when he returned to the chamber last summer.
Source: BFM TV
