In the commercial and diplomatic affair of the submarines, the oppositions spoke of the political responsibility of the government in the conduct of the case
The opposition continued to be outraged on Friday at the breach by Australia of the mega-contract for submarines concluded with France, the right denouncing a “fiasco” while on the left they were worried about the use.
The Republicans see in it “an alarm signal attesting to the industrial and geopolitical decline of France” and ask that “all the light [soit] made on the way in which this contract was negotiated and the reasons which led France to this fiasco ”.
The candidates for the nomination on the right thus expressed concern and annoyance, such as Xavier Bertrand declaring himself “very surprised that we seem to discover this at the last moment” and denouncing a form of “humiliation”, while Valérie Pécresse warned of “the growing deficit” in the country’s trade balance. Marine Le Pen for her part had called for a parliamentary commission of inquiry on Thursday.
On the left, the LFI deputy Alexis Corbière judged on the Public Senate “hardly credible” that there is “no social consequence”. Its group president Jean-Luc Mélenchon had already deplored “a new manifestation of the contempt of the United States for the agreements concluded by its allies” and judged that “it is time to […] leaving NATO ”joined on this last point by the communist Fabien Roussel.
