The National Assembly decided, on Wednesday, October 9, to take legal action in the case of the former Macronist minister Aurore Bergé, accused by left-wing deputies of “false testimony” for having challenged before a commission of inquiry any personal link with a lobbyist for private daycares, according to information from Agence France-Presse (AFP) confirmed by the world. There “processing request” criminal charges against Mme Bergé, now a deputy of the Joint Party for the Republic, was validated by ten votes “in favor” and nine votes “against”, during a vote carried out by the office, an executive body dominated by the left, AFP sources specified.
The “rebel” parliamentarians and environmentalists who request this procedure are based on comments made on April 30 by M.me He appeared before a parliamentary commission of inquiry into the “daycare economic model”. Under oath he stated that he had no “personal, intimate or friendly connection, or acquaintances” with the general delegate of the French Federation of Daycare Companies (FFEC), Elsa Hervy.
However, in his research book The ogres (Flammarion), about the drifts and the “voracity” of certain private daycare groups, investigative journalist Víctor Castanet evokes a “non-aggression pact” which would have been concluded between Mme Bergé, when she was Minister of Families (July 2023-January 2024), and Elsa Hervy. METROme Bergé reported last week that he had filed a defamation lawsuit following the publication of these revelations.
“Smother the fire”
For his part, Víctor Castanet made public documents that demonstrate, according to him, “that there was an agreement between Aurore Bergé and Elsa Hervy to put out the fire”. One of these documents is an email, sent on August 8, 2023 by the minister to her chief of staff, in which she says about Mme Hervy: “She is above all a friend 🙂 She will be a great help to me. »
After these revelations and Wednesday’s vote, “Aurore Bergé will have to be held accountable for lying to the national representation”he greeted the head of the “rebel” deputies, Mathilde Panot, on day X. “We do not make friends with lobbies that mistreat children when we are ministers in charge of early childhood”he added. The former minister must now “being able to defend oneself against these accusations in court and not on television”commented the environmentalist deputy Emmanuel Duplessy.
Shapeme Bergé, the new popular front “As expected, we decided once again to apply to LFI” and his “unfounded request” against him. “The left continues its political and democratic shipwreck”he lamented.
