LFI deputy Alexis Corbière is already considering the creation of a parliamentary commission of inquiry, while the RN requests a "resale right" from a previous commission on the Alstom affair, after information from the "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 42 media partners.

In this context, Le Monde took an interest in the links between American society and Emmanuel Macron when he was Minister of the Economy (2014-2016).

The newspaper concludes that there is a secret "deal" between Uber and Emmanuel Macron in Bercy.

"It is very serious, the idea that Mr. Macron has, in this secret pact with a company, deregulated the regulations on taxis", accused the deputy of Seine-Saint-Denis.

"I have a certain idea of ​​​​the Republic, which means that the president or whoever wants to be president, cannot be a lobbyist in the service of private interests and a North American company", continued Mr. Corbière. .

"What lessons can be drawn from this? Obviously ask the question when you can address the government, a commission of inquiry as well," he suggested.

Demonstration of taxis in Paris on January 26, 2016, protesting in particular against Uber KENZO TRIBOUILLARD AFP / Archives

"Given the magnitude of the thing, it may upset a schedule that we had planned, it requires a political discussion," said Mr. Corbière.

The LFI group in the Assembly initially intended to use its drawing rights for a commission of inquiry on inflation.

-"Uber scandal"-

According to him, "it is the least of things" that the president speaks about these revelations and "if he does not do so, we are in the presidential irresponsibility of the Fifth Republic".

RN deputy Sébastien Chenu denounced at a press conference "the first scandal of Emmanuel Macron's five-year term, the Uber scandal".

According to his colleague Jean-Philippe Tanguy, the elected RNs are asking for "a resale right" on the Alstom affair which had been the subject of a parliamentary commission of inquiry chaired by Olivier Marleix (LR), the latter having seized the righteousness in 2019.

They are "not against" a commission of inquiry on Uber but for Mr. Tanguy, it "probably does not make much sense to redo a commission of inquiry since the essential elements of the investigative inquiry and testimonies were made by the Marleix commission between 2017 and 2018".

"A fact-finding mission could highlight these elements and bring them up to date," added Mr. Tanguy.

- "No consideration" -

"The minimum is that he explains what he did and how he contributed to not only ensuring that Uber set up in France, but, thanks to a law called the Macron law , unravel part of the labor code to promote this type of activity, and in particular the social consequences on employees", lamented the secretary general of the CGT Philippe Martinez.

"It's not news that Uber is at this point in a logic of lobbying to deregulate, to make money by taking little account of what exists in terms of law in the countries and especially in terms of rights of the workers concerned", relativized on the other hand the boss of the CFDT Laurent Berger.

For the communist Fabien Roussel, Emmanuel Macron "chooses the business world, these multinationals, instead of thinking about the protection of the French, the protection of work".

The boss of the LREM deputies Aurore Bergé brushed aside these criticisms, judging "great a country which is offended that a Minister of the Economy receives business leaders in a completely public way in a debate which was a parliamentary debate".

"There is no deal, there is no consideration, there is a minister who has received great business leaders and that's normal," she added.

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