2023-09-04 19:06:45
Warnings but no punishment. The Renaissance deputy Karl Olive will not be sanctioned for having signed a forum in the Journal du Dimanche, then infringing an instruction from the Renaissance group, the latter stressing on Monday that possible expressions of elected officials in the JDD would be “individual” .
The Bureau of the presidential party group, led by Sylvain Maillard, rejected the idea of a sanction on Friday during a meeting, and formalized it in a statement on Monday, citing a spirit of “appeasement”. The group also declared via this press release that “expressions in the JDD” will be “individual” and cannot “presuppose collective positions which are those of the Renaissance group”. But they will therefore not be prohibited at this stage.
“Let’s smell the cows’ ass!” »
Sylvain Maillard had told his troops this summer not to participate in the content of the JDD, while the newspaper resumed publication under the direction of far-right journalist Geoffroy Lejeune, after weeks of strikes and mass departures within the writing.
Karl Olive, deputy of Yvelines, had all the same signed a platform on August 20 entitled: “Let’s go smell the ass of the cows! “, where he praised in particular “the democracy of proximity and the participative democracy” and pleaded for the end of the prohibition of the accumulation of mandates in Parliament for mayors.
Its group president then announced an upcoming meeting to “follow up” on the platform in a “newspaper (which) still does not provide the necessary guarantee of plurality that our group expects”. “Everyone agreed that he shouldn’t have. You have to talk to everyone, but there is a time for decorum,” a source within the group told AFP, adding that “two deputies” unsuccessfully asked for a sanction against their colleague.
It was finally decided that Karl Olive would be “not subject to personal sanctions”. “What happened (at the JDD) was violent, we can’t act as if nothing had happened,” said another member of the group, judging however that it was impossible to “boycott indefinitely” the JDD .
During the first issue under the leadership of Geoffroy Lejeune, it was the Secretary of State for the City Sabrina Agresti-Roubache who granted an interview to the JDD. Many observers see in the arrival of Geoffroy Lejeune the hand of Vincent Bolloré, a billionaire with reputedly ultra-conservative opinions.
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