For the MEP and national secretary of EELV David Cormand, François de Rugy was rather "sober" and "austere" when he was a member of the ecologist party.

INTERVIEW

François de Rugy remains in office. Thursday evening, after an interview with his Minister for the ecological and solidarity transition, Édouard Philippe decided to maintain his confidence in the former president of the National Assembly, pinned inter alia for sumptuous dinners organized with public funds, between 2017 and 2018.

Rugy, "austere" and "sober"?

Matthew Belliard's guest on Europe 1, MEP and national secretary EELV David Cormand returned to this case and the recent behavior of the former MP EELV, visibly very different from a few years ago. "We worked together more than five years at Les Verts," recalls David Cormand. "It was not the style of the house, Francois is someone who was rather austere, sober, not especially a wine lover, he was very far from that."

The ecologist MEP identifies "two big losers" in this affair: "The image of democracy and that of ecology". "Whatever happens, we now have a Minister of Ecology weakened politically," he laments. "These images rightly offend our fellow citizens at a time of social crisis, it gives the impression that our representatives benefit from their situation even though there are important social movements in our country. hurts."

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"There are extremely important environmental emergencies, there is still a lot to do," says David Cormand. "With a Minister of Ecology who will have a hard time weighing on trade-offs with his colleagues, it adds an additional handicap: in essence, ecology should be the government's top priority. the Minister of Ecology is implicated for issues that are very far from ecology. "

" More than an isolated case, David Cormand sees a set of negative signals specific to the current power:" There is something special with The Republic in power: there are several elements that end up making system ", he criticizes. "

"It seems that sometimes they feel all allowed," says David Cormand. "This is the Benalla affair, it is the case around the current president of the National Assembly whose cabinet has written notes with pejorative political stakes, which is not the role of the presidency of the National Assembly There is something that worries me in a moment of democratic crisis and political crisis, that the power is as deaf and blind to the suffering that many of our fellow citizens feel, it worries me very strongly about to the health of our Republic, "he concludes.