2023-06-03 11:21:04
Asked about France Inter this Saturday, the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt denies any suspicion of favouritism. “Nothing concerns me in terms of corruption and taking interest” in the investigation conducted by the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office he said, adding: “I intend to convince the court of my good faith and my innocence. The politician will be tried from November 27 to 30 for a case of awarding a water management contract.
“I am neither wrung out nor fragile,” added Olivier Dussopt, after months of parliamentary battle around the pension reform. He “keeps the confidence of the Prime Minister” Élisabeth Borne, AFP had learned on Friday from the entourage of the latter.
The facts date back to 2009, when he was mayor of Annonay, a town in the Ardèche. He is suspected of favoring a treatment group some water. Initially, the case had started about two lithographs by the painter Gérard Garouste (which he has since returned), offered in 2017 to the elected official by a local Saur manager, when a contract was about to be concluded between the city of Annonay and this company.
“His business is crap”, tick with the Parisian an adviser to the executive. “It weakens him, slice for his part a minister. The word favoritism is very deleterious. He will have to hold on like that for five months, forced to answer questions about it at each interview! And in the Assembly, the oppositions will not miss it. “They had not deprived themselves of it, four months ago, so that he was trying to open the debates in the Assembly on the most explosive reform of the five-year term.
Liot’s proposal “inadmissible”
On France Inter this Saturday, the minister also judged the bill of the Liot parliamentary group “inadmissible”, “very clearly in view of the Constitution”, while specifying that it is up to the President of the National Assembly to put it to the vote. “There was a vote in committee and a vote that was lost by those who wanted to repeal the reform. Obviously, as they lost the vote, they consider it illegitimate,” said the minister.
On Wednesday May 31, after lively debates, the Social Affairs Committee of the National Assembly had voted against the repeal of the retirement at age 64. The majority had won a stage victory, before the arrival in session on June 8 of the text, which maintains the flame of the opponents. Oppositions had denounced “scheming” to prevent this vote in the Hemicycle. But the Liot group had confirmed shortly after that it would table an amendment to restore Article 1.
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