From the left to the Rassemblement National, the French opposition raises the tone against President Emmanuel Macron after the press rumors about his privileged exchanges with the Uber company when he was Minister of the Economy. The Union of the left led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon (Nupes) calls for the creation of a commission of inquiry. Harsh criticisms and requests for clarification also from the Marine Le Pen National Rassemblement and the CGT union.
Meanwhile, after the information of the so-called ‘Uber Files’, conveyed by an anonymous source to the British newspaper Guardian and transmitted to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists as well as to 42 media partners, Le Monde also focuses on the alleged links between the company USA and Macron at the time he was Francois Hollande’s minister (2014-2016).
The French newspaper concludes that there is a “secret” agreement “between Uber and Macron. For Mathilde Panot, the president of the radical left group France Insoumise in Assemblée Nationale, there was a” looting “of France, with Macron having he was at the same time “adviser and minister to François Hollande and lobbyist for the US multinational which aimed at a persistent deregulation of labor law.” The number 1 of the French Communist Party, Fabien Roussel, denounces the “chilling revelations about the active role played by Macron , then minister, to facilitate the development of Uber in France “,” against all our rules, all our social achievements and against the rights of workers. “On the other hand, the president of the Rassemblement National (extreme right of Marine Le Pen ), Jordan Bardella, stated that “Emmanuel Macron’s path has a coherence, a red thread: serving private interests, often foreign ones, before national elli “.
Source: Ansa
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