A secret agreement that goes wrong.

Since the revelation, by the newspaper Le Monde, Sunday, July 10, of a deal between Emmanuel Macron, then Minister of Economy and Finance, and the leaders of Uber to facilitate the establishment of the giant of the VTC in France, the president is under fire from critics.

While the left castigates a government "hand in hand with the lobbies", the right calls on the president to "be accountable".

The former Secretary of State in charge of Transport, Alain Vidalies, who supervised the file, affirms, as for him, "fall from the clouds".

A “lobbyist” president

By concluding a "win-win" agreement with Emmanuel Macron, the American company would have agreed to stop its UberPop service in France (occasional driver service), subject to legal procedures, in exchange for a simplification of the conditions necessary for obtain a VTC license.

"There is no deal, there is no counterpart, there is a minister who has received great business leaders and that's normal," said Monday, July 11, the boss of the Renaissance deputies, Aurore Bergé, defending the action of Emmanuel Macron. 

"There is no 'deal'.


There is a minister of the economy who publicly received a company that wanted to establish itself, develop a service acclaimed by the French, and create jobs.


And a president who guaranteed the social rights of these employees."#UberFiles pic.twitter.com/beCc8B057F

– Aurore Bergé (@auroreberge) July 11, 2022

But for the left of the left, these revelations provide new proof of the influence exercised by big business on the current government.

The boss of the LFI deputies, Mathilde Panot, for her part denounced on Twitter a "looting of the country", Emmanuel Macron having been, according to her, both "advisor and minister of François Hollande and lobbyist for a US multinational aimed at long-term deregulation of labor law".

A project that "continues today" denounced his Rebellious colleague François Ruffin, castigating a government "hand in hand with the lobbies".

At Bercy, Macron served Uber, reveals Le Monde.

But it continues today: against the European Commission, which opposes the recognition of platform workers as employees?

Borne and Macron, hand in hand with the lobbies of Uber and company.

#UberFiles

— Francois Ruffin (@Francois_Ruffin) July 10, 2022

The number one of the PCF, Fabien Roussel, relayed "damning revelations on the active role played by Emmanuel Macron, then minister, to facilitate the development of Uber in France", "against all our rules, all our social achievements and against workers' rights".

"Uber deserves a small commission of inquiry" parliamentary, according to the communist deputy Pierre Dharréville.

The president must be "accountable"

More discreet, the right-wing opposition party Les Républicains, which claims a liberal economic approach, called on the president to "be accountable to the Nation" through the voice of its vice-president Gilles Platret.  

Philippe Seguin wrote that "the State must tirelessly attack privileges, fight feudalism, grant primacy to merits and virtue".

The current President of the Republic illustrates the exact opposite.

Mr. Macron must be accountable to the Nation.

#UberFiles pic.twitter.com/76r6RtDh0E

— Gilles PLATRET (@gillesplatret) July 10, 2022

Joining the criticisms expressed by France Insoumise, the president of the National Rally (RN), Jordan Bardella, judged that "Emmanuel Macron's career has a coherence, a red thread: to serve private interests, often foreign, before the interests national".

Another figure of the French far right, Florian Philippot also expressed his indignation, calling on the opposition to approve the motion of censure against the government, the vote of which will take place on Monday. 

If after the #UberFiles the oppositions don't vote for the motion of censure today, I don't know what they need!


Be responsible and vote for it!

Put the Macronie down!

— Florian Philippot (@f_philippot) July 11, 2022

Discussed in the Hemicycle from 4:00 p.m., this motion was tabled by the left-wing Nupes coalition against Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, whom she accuses of not having asked for a vote of confidence last week during of its policy statement.

The motion has almost no chance of succeeding, for lack of support from the RN and LR groups. 

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