POLITICS – He’s clinging on, but can he hold on? Damien Abad has been in turmoil for a week. In twenty-four hours, he goes from taking the important right of Emmanuel Macron to minister accused of rape, in One of the Newspapers. A look back at the journey of a man with a meteoric rise who risks falling. major part of his career. Coming from a family foreign to the political world and suffering from a rare disease (arthrogryposis) which causes him a serious handicap, the Nîmes offers a story that looks like social revenge, spiced up by the departure of his political party, the Republicans, for join the Borne government of Emmanuel Macron. The accomplishment of an activist career that began early, in 2008. At 28, Damien Abad entered the municipal council of Vauvert, in the Gard, a few kilometers from Nîmes, where he was born in 1980. The same year, he founded the Young Centrists movement, affiliated with the young party Le Nouveau centre, led by Hervé Morin. He rose through the ranks of the centrist formation where he was propelled to the European Parliament in 2009, with the support of Hervé Morin who made his presence on the lists a battle horse within the UMP, in particular for the more diverse profile that ‘he offers. At 29, he was elected the youngest MEP among the French. “Who betrayed, will betray…” Enough to see your wings grow. It was during this period that he met Margaux, then aged 22, a young party activist who contacted him to begin her political life. Their exchanges quickly become insistent on the part of the young elected official, according to the SMS reported by Mediapart. It is she who files a complaint against him against him in 2017, for rape. It is closed without further action, he now firmly disputes the facts. The complaint then only makes a paragraph in the tabloids, without the name of Damien Abad being mentioned. Only Republican insiders know it’s him. Some make grave jokes about it, according to the story of Liberation, on May 22. In 2012, he became deputy for Ain by joining the UMP, after a stint at the regional council of the Rhône. A first betrayal that Hervé Morin hardly tastes. “His career is that of an immense opportunist. He was at the New Center, he went to the UMP to be a deputy while I did as a European deputy and regional councilor. In the primaries, he supported Le Maire, then Bertrand, he was also close to Wauquiez…”, lists the current president of the Normandy region with HuffPost. Same feeling among Les Républicains, bitter after his departure from the party to join Emmanuel Macron, he who severely judged his comrades who had taken the plunge a few years earlier and who placed himself in opposition to the Palais-Bourbon. At HuffPost, several of his former Assembly comrades described him in May 2022 as an upstart “ready to do anything to succeed”, even if it meant “betraying” by leaving ambiguity to the end. “He is unreliable. Who betrayed, will betray…”, cowardly, laconic, Pierre-Henri Dumont, MP for Pas-de-Calais. We must not take the French and us, his colleagues, for idiots. Anne-Laure Blin, LR MP for Maine-et-Loire, at the “HuffPost”Julien Aubert who recognizes in him “a fairly pronounced sense of the human”, the judge “very personal”. The deputy of Vaucluse, who likes the “panache”, did not appreciate that his former comrade of the “cadets Bourbons”, promising young deputies of the UMP elected in 2012, among whom was Gérald Darmanin, current Minister of Interior, waiting to be sure to enter the government to leave the presidency of the LR group in the National Assembly, on May 19. Same feeling with his colleague Anne-Laure Blin: “We must not take the French and us, his colleagues, for idiots. I regret the lack of courage he had in not daring to make the choice of clarity that he was asked to do on many occasions”, points out the deputy from Maine-et-Loire, elected in 2020. He had yet moved heaven and earth to obtain this group presidency, one of the most prestigious positions at the Palais Bourbon. In November 2019, he was the first to draw his candidacy to succeed Christian Jacob, who had just become the boss of LR. “He had a nice file ready, we felt he had everything prepared”, half ironically a recipient parliamentarian. “He had worked with a small inner circle, as a team”, confirms Julien Aubert. Opposite, the deputy of Eure-et-Loir, Olivier Marleix, presented by the Duck chained as the choice of Christian Jacob share favorite. But Abad knows how to do it. He identifies the frustrated, flatters them, creates links, defends his project: plays politics. And it is not the phone calls of the former deputy, Alain Marleix, to a few deputies to support his son who stop him. Damien Abad wins. Another victory. I knew he was heavy on flirt, but I was not aware of the complaint. Pierre-Henri Dumont, LR deputy for Pas-de-Calais, at “HuffPost” At that time, already, rumors were circulating in the about the member for Ain. “I had heard that he was someone very very bordering”, confides a former collaborator of the UMP at the National Assembly between the years 2012 and 2017. “We said to women ‘be careful, do not stay alone with him’”, he recalls. “We had heard noises, in particular a story… but nothing concrete. There had been this article in Closer on the 2017 complaint but we didn’t know more”, adds an LR deputy. “I was not aware of this reputation, nor of inappropriate behavior, nor even flirty”, promises Sébastien Huygue, deputy from the North who was on his political line, but disapproves of his departure to the government. He suspects “a political score settling”. “I knew he was heavy on flirt, but I was not aware of the complaint”, affirms Pierre-Henri Dumont, who on the contrary judges the choice of the executive “a bit cynical” to “appoint the president of the LR group in a government that leans to the left rather than believing the word of women when it is the great cause of the five-year term.” If there are new elements, if justice is seized, we will draw all the consequences of this decisionElisabeth Borne, Prime Minister, May 22 This is where the vertigo comes. The truth. Barely named, the complaint resurfaced in a Mediapart investigation started in January 2021 and published the day after his appointment, on May 21. The newspaper collected another testimony from a woman who does not know Margaux and who in turn accuses the minister of rape, for facts which date back to 2010. Five years after #MeToo, what becomes “the Abad affair” is spreading like wildfire on social networks and in the press. It hits its trajectory head-on and shakes up a newly composed government. Emmanuel Macron has just made the fight against violence against women the great cause of his five-year term. The scandal is spot on. Damien Abad defends himself, from the town of Saint-Jean-Le-Vieux, in Ain, where he still competes in the legislative elections, without the LR label which presents a candidate facing him. “I have never raped a single woman in my life”, promises the minister-deputy in a short speech to the press where he reveals details of his intimacy. “It is materially impossible for me,” he insists. We have never identified any problems with regard to women. On the contrary. A relative of Damien Abad, at “HuffPost” The case is everywhere in the media, it prevents the government from imposing other themes. The Prime Minister, Élisabeth Borne, is forced to speak on the subject in the middle of a campaign trip to Calvados where she is seeking her first term. “If there are new elements, if justice is seized, we will draw all the consequences of this decision”. Close the ban. On May 25, justice offers a reprieve to Damien Abad. The Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office, alerted by a report from the Observatory of gender-based and sexual violence, indicates that it is unable “as it stands” to open an investigation, for lack of sufficient information. In the Gard, where Damien Abad retains family, friendly and political ties, Mediapart’s revelations do not reach his historical circle. “We have never spotted any problems with regard to women. On the contrary, meeting his previous companions, we always had the impression of a perfectly normal man, despite his real and painful physical difficulties”, defends one of his relatives, still involved in local politics. Still in the Roman city, but at the other end of the political spectrum, Vincent Bouget, general secretary of the PCF in the Gard, remembers a “very strong” student displaying a “strong will to succeed” of the time. where the two were studying in preparatory class at the end of the 1990s. , continues the communist, unable to put another reputation on this student than that of a “right-wing guy, which clashes in literary preparation”. In the Ain, the political apparatuses count less than the personalities, the proximity and the confidence granted to the elected officials. We will see what impact this affair will have on the election Xavier Martinez, LR candidate against Damien Abad, at the “HuffPost” What will the voters of Ain decide? Can the case reach the man who was re-elected hands down in 2017 with 67% of the vote. “It’s a territory of modesty where people are silent, this tornado causes a lot of discomfort, but what place will it have in the polls?” Asks aloud for The HuffPost its competitor invested by LR, Julian Martinez. “Here, the political apparatus counts less than the personalities, the proximity and the confidence granted to the elected officials. We will see what impact this affair will have on the election”, weighs the thirty-year-old, elected from Oyonnax. A sword of Damocles which does not cost him, for the moment, the confidence of Emmanuel Macron. “He has to clench his fists,” quips, with dubious humor, an executive adviser. If within the government, the evocation of his case is embarrassing, some of his colleagues want to believe that the storm is only temporary. “It’s true that we could do without a case that occupies so much media space. But if the file does not experience a rebound, caused by new elements, it should hold”, blows a newly appointed minister, acknowledging his isolation within the government team: “He does not yet have a cabinet, not even a communications adviser”, he told us on Thursday 26. “Unlike Darmanin who had a clan, Abad has no one”, abounds a communicator familiar with the Republicans. Even psychologically he is alone. He is hated by LR, he has no media coverage and, to top it off, he may lose his legislative. He can lose everything”. See also on The HuffPost: Abad, Darmanin … Feminist anger against the “government of shame”
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