Revelations judged “overwhelming”which present the future President of the Republic as a “lobbyist in the service of private interests”. And not in the service of the general interest. Political oppositions have been increasing their criticism of Emmanuel Macron since the publication, on Sunday July 10, of « Uber Files ». An investigation based on thousands of internal Uber documents sent by an anonymous source to the British daily The Guardian, and transmitted to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and to forty-two media partners including The world.
In this context, the newspaper took an interest in the links between American society and Emmanuel Macron when he was Minister of the Economy (2014-2016). Analysis of these internal documents shows that at the time the Bercy tenant worked actively behind the scenes for the VTC company, which was trying to impose market deregulation and was facing government hostility. A « deal » secret between Uber and Emmanuel Macron, which is causing an outcry today. In particular on the left, where the reactions are the most numerous. As of Sunday evening, the deputy of Val-d’Oise Aurélien Taché, elected under the label New Popular Ecological and Social Union, denounced “a state scandal”. From La France insoumise (LFI) to the Communists, passing through the ecologists, all denounced a mixture of genres, reproaching the one who wanted to make France a « start-up nation » to have turned into “lobbyist”in order to “facilitate development” of Uber, whose objective would ultimately be to “sustainably deregulate labor law”. This is ” and looting of the country »estimated the boss of the LFI deputies, Mathilde Panot. “A pact (…) to crush our social model”added the elected Communist of Paris Ian Brossat.
Commission of inquiry or fact-finding mission?
From the left to the National Rally (RN), via the CGT, all are calling on Mr. Macron to explain himself. In the Senate, the environmental group announced on Monday afternoon that it “requests its own commission of inquiry” parliamentarian, in order to “to bring to light the scale of the phenomenon and to reinforce the transparency of our institutions”. In the morning, LFI deputy Alexis Corbière said he was considering the creation of such a commission, as had notably been the case in the summer of 2018, during the Benalla affair.
At the RN, we want to avoid the reflex “Pavlovian” of the commission of inquiry, specified, Monday morning, the number two of the group in the National Assembly, Jean-Philippe Tanguy, to be satisfied with a mission of information, judged ” more efficient “. The leader of the far-right deputies, Marine Le Pen, has in fact exhausted her cartridges by requesting in particular a commission of inquiry into “the real causes of inflation”. The RN still wants to be heard by denouncing “the first scandal of the quinquennium”. In a controlled anti-elite register, Mr. Tanguy targets a head of state in “American lobbyist” reduced to sound « Rothschild banker agenda ». Which would thus embody “the incestuous links between profiteering, crony capitalism and high administration”. The load is heavy. But the RN deputy for the Somme goes even further by evoking a “corruption pact”according to the formula of Olivier Marleix about the sale of the energy branch of Alstom in 2014, which however remains to be proven.
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