The secretary general of Renaissance Stéphane Séjourné announced this Tuesday evening to file a complaint against several left-wing elected officials who associated an elected Mahoran with controversial remarks to the presidential party.
“We won’t let anything pass.” This Tuesday evening, Stéphane Séjourné, secretary general of the Renaissance presidential party, announced that he was filing a complaint for defamation against left-wing elected officials who associated his party with the remarks of the first vice-president (various center) of the Mayotte Departmental Council, Salime Mdéré. He had called for “killing” the “thugs”, targeting opponents of the Wuambushu operation against delinquency and unsanitary housing in Mayotte.
Even if the elected official backpedaled on Tuesday, assuring that his words “exceeded (his) thought” and “very willingly” apologizing “if they could have offended”, Renaissance condemned, in a press release, “with the greatest firmness the intolerable words” of Salime Mdéré.
“Are LREM elected officials going to condemn these unbearable remarks by the LREM vice-president of the Mayotte departmental council?” Asked LFI coordinator Manuel Bompard.
“An elected LREM from Mayotte and vice-president of the department calls for the direct murder of young Comorians during Operation Wuambushu. Shameful. This is where our government’s policy leads”, reacted the boss of the PCF Fabien Roussel, before taking “act” of Renaissance’s denial.
Tweets that “tarnish the honor” of the party
“Contrary to what certain media or personalities have indicated, Mr. Salime Mdéré was not a member of La République En Marche, is not a member of Renaissance, he never obtained the nomination of our party and does not has also not granted its sponsorship to the President of the Republic in 2022”, said Renaissance.
“He has also been a member since 2021 of a departmental executive which strongly opposes the action of our majority” and “his words therefore in no way commit our party and call for an unambiguous condemnation of all political forces. “, added the presidential party.
So, this Tuesday evening, Stéphane Séjourné felt that leaving the tweets online sullied “the honor and reputation of our political family”.
This is why complaints will be filed against elected officials whom he describes as “petty slanderers and their infamy”: Éric Piolle (EELV mayor of Grenoble), Clémentine Autain (LFI deputy), Manuel Bompard (LFI deputy), Marie-Pierre de la Gontrie (PS senator), Mélanie Vogel (ecologist senator), Éliane Assassi (PCF senator), Guillaume Gontard (ecologist senator) and “all the people who will continue to spread these false insinuations”.
“Between withdrawing their lies and a few thousand retweets, they seem to have made their choice,” he lamented.
Note that at 8:40 p.m. this Tuesday, Manuel Bompard’s tweet no longer appeared on the deputy’s account. For her part, Mélanie Vogel corrected her tweet while Éliane Assassi admitted that it was not a Renaissance elected official in a new tweet, without deleting the first.
