The intervention of MP Quentin Bataillon at “TPMP” revives accusations of complacency from the Macron camp in direction of the Bolloré group | EUROtoday

Will Quentin Bataillon declare to the ethics officer of the National Assembly the present given to him by Cyril Hanouna? Guest of “Touche pas à mon poste” (“TPMP”, C8) Tuesday April 2, the Renaissance deputy of the Loire acquired from the arms of the TV host a t-shirt to the glory of the present. The matter may have ended there if the elected official was not the president of the parliamentary fee of inquiry into TNT, of which Mr. Hanouna and the channels of his employer Vincent Bolloré are on the coronary heart of the investigations.

While the work of the fee he chairs has not but been delivered, Mr. Bataillon deplored on the set “the political objective of this commission” on the initiative of La France insoumise and ordered “get away from the witch hunt, the hunt for presenters, journalists, channels”. “TF1 and TMC respect the rules, as you respect them”, he informed Cyril Hanouna once more, seeming to neglect that the present was sanctioned dozens of instances by Arcom. Then the MP fueled the smear marketing campaign launched by the host and his columnists towards their competitor Yann Barthès, presenter of “Quotidien” (TMC), whom he additionally interviewed. “It’s the first time I got angry, he remembered. He had a rather arrogant attitude from the start, he refused to answer our questions. »

And if the entourage of the president of the Renaissance group at the Palais-Bourbon, Sylvain Maillard, fuels the story of a rant against Mr. Bataillon, no sanction is envisaged against the deputy. The President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, published a press release to remind us that committee presidents must “show reserve (…) in order to guarantee the credibility of the investigations”, however she is not going to take motion towards him. She hides behind the vagueness of the laws, arguing that the commissions of inquiry are sovereign. As for the resignation of Mr. Bataillon, it isn’t on the agenda. “I don’t want to be trapped by this political manipulation, he declared yesterday in Opinion. I talk to everyone and I will go wherever I am invited. »

Very tense local weather

The deputy's exit, nonetheless, jeopardizes the work of the fee of inquiry, which should ship its conclusions on May 7 after 4 months of hearings carried out in a really tense local weather between Quentin Bataillon and the “rebellious” rapporteur, Aurélien Saintoul. “I don’t see how the work can be completed because the conditions for dialogue are no longer met,” believes the environmentalist deputy for Val-de-Marne Sophie Taillé-Polian, who wrote to the ethics officer of the National Assembly to ask “revocation” by Mr. Bataillon.

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