Despite calls, including PS, “take the consequences” of its fiscal woes, the former Secretary of State Thomas Thévenoud announced Monday that AFP MP but still left the PS, while his wife was “put on leave without pay” from his position as chief of staff to Senate President. “After talking it Monday evening with Jean-Christophe Cambadélis “, the first secretary of the PS, ” I decided to put myself back from the Socialist Party and thus the CBC group in the National Assembly (…) But I want to reiterate that the sequence of shocking negligence that put me in this situation does not make me a fraud (…) My constituents in Saône-et-Loire will be my sole judges “ in the laws of 2017, he says in a written statement to AFP.
Specifically, Thévenoud will continue to be a member of Saone-et-Loire but will no longer sit in the Chamber among his colleagues Socialists. He should join the unregistered, as is already the case of another former MP PS, Sylvie Andrieux, who sits among them since 2013 and his heavy sentence for embezzling public funds. “I understand the disappointment and the anger of those who, activists of the Socialist Party supporters left, voters in Saône-et-Loire, trusted me. I apologize to them “ says the elected 40 years, forced to resign from his post as Secretary of State for Foreign Trade, just nine days after his appointment, for non-payment of taxes for several years.
Denouncing a “media hard” and calling ‘respect’ of his family, said he Thévenoud “set to all day (her) with taxes, as a taxpayer in this situation, all of the late fees. ” “I have never been the subject of any criminal investigation, no indictment, no conviction. If I missed my tax obligations, I have never committed any criminal offense “ says he promised that the review of its assets by the High Authority for the transparency of public life show that “politics (l ‘) has never enriched.”
Monday, his wife Sandra Thévenoud in turn paid the price of not paying taxes torque for several years: the news of his ouster was made by President PS Senate Jean-Pierre Bel. While MPs are Tuesday their return after the summer break, Cambadélis convened Monday Thévenoud “to draw conclusions as Socialist deputy revelations about his tax returns.”
“Not a thug”
The President of the National Assembly Claude Bartolone (PS) had said “sure” that the young MP not “make a decision that both protects him, but we collectively protect, and even beyond the left, all the politicians, because we see the trauma that has created this issue in public opinion “, an implicit invitation to resign.
The appeals were much clearer on the part of the opposition. The former Prime Minister and candidate for the primary UMP Alain Juppe said that should Thévenoud “at least stand to his constituents.” The leader of the UMP, Christian Jacob, he has raised “small operations” around the fate of Thévenoud in the Assembly, while a member’s resignation threatens the absolute majority of PS Related Group. He predicted a solution “likely halfway” , that is to say, not of resignation but starting the PS group.
PS North MP Bernard Roman has him directly to his defense, declaring “flabbergasted” that we can ask for his resignation or exclusion as “is not a thug.” “If one were to make the case on the public square of all members who have been in trouble with the administration … If he lied, cheated, stolen, certainly, but there’s not the case, this is not a criminal offense “, he said.
Meanwhile, shortly before the announcement for discharge, Ms. Thévenoud had been the target of Senator UDI- UC Nathalie Goulet, who questioned his continuation in office as Chief of Staff of the President of the Senate. “Taxation is the case in solidarity with husband, Mrs. Thévenoud mark the same irresponsibility that her husband and should draw the consequences “, estimated the senator from Orne, candidate to succeed Mr. Bel. Sandra Thévenoud was ‘placing on leave without pay “ until September 30, when Bel cease to be president of the Upper House. “This is a common agreement that the decision was taken” , said Bel.
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