Paris (AFP)
The first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure denounced Thursday a "scandal" after the publication in Le Point a letter signed Richard Ferrand's chief of staff, Jean-Marie Girier, proposing to create a "task force for + hunting + the mayors "PS.
"This is a scandal this story," Faure told AFP. The member for Seine-et-Marne denounces in the first place a "misappropriation of public funds", Mr. Girier having written "in his qualifications", as a member of the cabinet of the President of the National Assembly, a note that "poses a strategy for the municipal ".
"Someone uses his working time in the National Assembly to think about something other than the proper functioning of the National Assembly," protested Mr. Faure, noting that investigations have been opened in the European Parliament "for similar facts ".
Asked by AFP, the entourage of Mr. Ferrand replied that it was a "political note by a political advisor to a politician, a note of atmosphere at his initiative." "It is always unfortunate that such a note for the President of the Assembly sort.The reaction of the PS shows that they are not serene," added this source.
Le Point published Thursday a letter signed by Mr. Girier, dated June 21, and addressed to the "President", which aims to "formulate an operational proposal to implement a + AGIR left + before the start of September 2019" (referring to Agir, the center-right party that supports the majority).
Mr. Girier suggests not to "create a party" but rather a "circle" or a "collective", without asking its members to leave the PS. It plans the launch in June of a "first call of the senators", the publication of a "platform of the Reformers" (the former right wing of the PS) in July, the "publication of a forum launching the structure on 24 August ", during the summer school of the PS in La Rochelle, and in September a" wave of investitures and support LREM to socialist mayors ".
A "task force" would be set up "to + chase + the mayors", based on a "macronist operational circle to treat socialist mayors" composed of five advisers working at the Elysee, the Assembly or for the government.
"As a ministerial advisor, I never took care of the municipal," protested Mr. Faure, who worked in the office of Martine Aubry.
On the merits, Mr. Faure pointed out that the first step of the plan had failed. The idea of an appeal by PS senators was well mentioned in the press at the end of June, but it was not finally published. "There was an attempt, it did pshitt.The failure is found," said AFP on 21 June the chairman of the PS group in the Senate, Patrick Kanner.
"How do you want people with left-wing beliefs to be in government politics," Faure asked, citing unemployment insurance reform, LLT cuts, or place of a "pivot age" for retirement.
The boss of the PS also recalled that Mr. Girier was already involved in a preliminary investigation opened in Lyon for embezzlement of public funds, the role of the city and the City of Lyon in the presidential campaign Emmanuel Macron.
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