The deputy for the 3rd district of Hérault published a long text on Twitter this Sunday, May 1, in which she announced her retirement from political life. Montpellier MP Coralie Dubost announces this Sunday, May 1 that she is giving up running for the legislative elections and “retiring from political life”. The elected official denounces an “anti-parliamentary cabal” after the revelations of Médiapart on the management of her mandate expenses. The deputy president of the LREM group is the subject of numerous attacks after the publication of an article on Friday April 29 relayed in many media. What is he accused of? His questionable management of the advance envelope for mandate expenses allocated by the National Assembly, ie 5,373 euros monthly. Purchases of lingerie, beach huts … Among the alleged costs would be purchases of clothing and lingerie, from 1,500 to 2,000 € per month, “up to 3,000 € per month”, assures Médiapart, but also reservations at the Verchant estate or at the Bonaventure beach in Palavas “where she has her habits”, says Médiapart, “where I make mandate appointments”, corrects Coralie Dubost, as well as “team-building”. The “high point” being 3,300 euros in one month on online sales sites such as Private Showroom. “There are mandate outfits, and personal outfits,” justified the MP. “I do not put the same business in my personal life and in my life of mandate”, she would have retorted to them. The deputy would have been obliged to make a loan to repay the overdraft of her AFM envelope. His former collaborators had triggered a collective alert in the spring of 2021 which had given rise to an internal investigation by the anti-harassment cell of the National Assembly. The MP defends her record Coralie Dubost defends her commitment during these five years: “Five years during which I have counted neither the hours nor the personal sacrifices, to uphold the values and convictions that I have defended all my life. Rule of law, Justice, Europe, non-discrimination, corporate social and environmental responsibility, science (…) I have always considered that these causes, that democracy, go beyond the person who temporarily embodies them.” “Phantasmagorical lynching” “My person is targeted by unjust attacks which serve my political group”, she notes. “I refuse to be the instrument of an anti-parliamentary cabal, in the same way that I refuse to lend myself to a ping-pong of justifications, which borders on a phantasmagoric lynching on social networks.” The MP, who is pregnant, highlights the need to “protect the child I am carrying from all the vicissitudes of exposure and political life.” “So the time has come for me to withdraw from political life and devote myself to my family. I will not be a candidate for re-election.” Coralie Dubost recalls having lost her father two months earlier: “I would have liked to devote more time to his last breaths, I want to devote peaceful ones to those of my newborn.” She ends her letter with thanks to her team and “integral activists”, her deputy who “often reminds her of my father”, her two collaborators Louise and Mathieu “with multiple talents”. Coralie Dubost also thanks Emmanuel Macron, Richard Ferrand and other collaborators… She concludes by thanking her “wonderful companion”, her family and her friends. “I’m happy with the weather we’re going to find again.”