Stanislas Guerini defends candidacy for Jérôme Peyrat’s legislative elections

The general delegate of the presidential party asked to recognize the “complexity” of the case and underlined that the ex-partner of the candidate had also been condemned.

Le Monde

The general delegate of La République en Marche (LRM), Stanislas Guerini, tried to justify, Wednesday, May 18 on Franceinfo , the candidacy for the legislative elections in the 4 e district of the dordogne of Jérôme Peyrat, whose inauguration by the collective of the majority, together !, , two years after his sentence to a suspended fine for domestic violence.

“I never want to give the impression that we could prevent the liberation of women’s words, that we could prevent the judicialization of affairs when there is intraconjugal violence, he started. And and he started. At the same time, I want us to look at things in their complexity. “Mr. Guerini then pointed out that Mr. Peyrat’s ex-partner” was also condemned in this same case “. “There has been an argument, there were two convictions on both sides,” continued the general delegate of LRM, who said “respect the court completely, which is not a Ineligibility decision “.

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“I took time to read the expectations, to understand, to know if, basically, we could be dealing with someone who could be capable of voluntary violence, he added. I believe , and I am even infinitely convinced, that this is not the case, otherwise never, I would never have allowed this nomination. (…) He is an honest man, I do not believe it capable of violence on Women. “

m. Peyrat, regional councilor of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, assures that the slap he gave to his ex-partner- which caused a total incapacity for work of fourteen days, according to Mediapart -, during an “argument which became violent”, was not voluntary. He said to the world that his ex-partner had been “condemned to a firm fine for malicious calls and messages, as well as indicted for defamation” and deplores “the amalgam” made by his contemptors between “his personal affair and dramas of intra -family violence “.

It has been ten days since his inauguration by the presidential majority annoys in the 4 e district of the Dordogne. Mr. Peyrat, mayor of La Roque-Gagec since 1995 and who has made a large part of his political career on the right, is a relative of Emmanuel Macron, of which he was advisable in 2019. Due to a preliminary investigation launched Against him, he had resigned from his duties in January 2020 and was sentenced in September of the same year for domestic violence on his ex-partner by the Angoulême Criminal Court. = “X8AWWB3” Data-Provider = “Dailymotion” Data-Title = “Legislative: the candidate Jérôme Peyrat, condemned for domestic violence, is a” honest man for Stanislas Guerini>

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