After Jérôme Peyrat, forced to withdraw in the face of the weight of his conviction for domestic violence, the pressure was building around another candidate invested by the presidential majority.

Thierry Solère, indicted for thirteen counts by the Nanterre court since 2019, including "tax evasion", "fictitious employment" and "illicit financing of electoral expenses", finally announced that he was withdrawing his candidacy in the Hauts-de -Seine.

“After ten years in Parliament, it is now time for me to continue this political commitment in a new form.

I will do this by supporting the action of the President of the Republic and will naturally continue to accompany him politically, ”he wrote in a tweet, on the day of the closing of the submission of candidacies in the prefecture.

"I will therefore not be a candidate in this legislative election and I give my full support to Emmanuel Pellerin, candidate of the presidential majority", whom "I have known for many years" and who will be "up to the task of fulfilling this function". , he added.

His mother-in-law and his wife also concerned

A longtime member of the right, organizer in 2016 of the primary won by François Fillon, Thierry Solère then quickly melted into macronie until he became a very close adviser to Emmanuel Macron.

At the end of March, his mother-in-law was indicted for "concealment of embezzlement of public funds", suspected of having held a fictitious job in the National Assembly for fourteen months, between 2015 and 2016. The firm Deloitte, which has employee Thierry Solère between 2011 and 2012 by paying him 20,000 euros in fees, is for "active influence peddling".

The wife of Thierry Solère, who was his parliamentary collaborator between 2012 and 2017, was placed under the status of assisted witness, less incriminating than that of indicted.

The Versailles Court of Appeal is due to rule on July 1 on the request for annulment of the procedure filed by Thierry Solère's lawyers in April.

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  • Elections

  • Legislative elections 2022

  • The Republic on the March (LREM)

  • Thierry Solere

  • Emmanuel Macron

  • tax evasion

  • Fictitious job