“Secret” pact against “all our rules”, “looting of the country”: left-wing elected officials strongly denounced this Sunday the links which united Emmanuel Macron and the company Uber, after press revelations.
An investigation based on thousands of internal Uber documents, revealed by numerous media, including France info and The worldreveals the involvement of the President of the Republic, then Minister of the Economy, in the establishment and consolidation of the VTC giant in France.
Published this Sunday evening, the numerous articles of this international investigation caused the French political class to react, denouncing the behavior of Emmanuel Macron when he was in Bercy.
A “looting of the country”
Mathilde Panot, president of the LFI group in the National Assembly, thus criticizes a “looting of the country”, Emmanuel Macron having been, according to her, both “adviser and minister to François Hollande and lobbyist for a US multinational aimed at deregulating the economy in the long term. labor law”.
The number one of the PCF Fabien Roussel relayed “damning revelations on the active role played by Emmanuel Macron, then minister, to facilitate the development of Uber in France”, “against all our rules, all our social achievements and against the rights workers”.
On the other side, Jordan Bardella, president of the RN, also judged that “Emmanuel Macron’s career has a consistency, a red thread: to serve private interests, often foreign, before national interests”.
A commission of inquiry?
In the evening, several deputies called for the constitution of a commission of inquiry in the National Assembly to shed light on the links between the President of the Republic and the giant of the VTC.
The first to launch this proposal was Pierre Dharréville, communist deputy from Bouches-du-Rhône. He was quickly followed by the rebellious Louis Boyard, from Val-de-Marne.
Not to mention a commission of inquiry, former socialist minister Alain Vidalies, in office when Emmanuel Macron allegedly facilitated the arrival of Uber, is calling for a “state response.” “It will be necessary to provide answers and clarifications to which the French have the right”, explains the former political leader to our colleagues from France info.