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Sophie Pantel photographed in the National Assembly on June 11, 2025
POLITICS – It will ultimately be without it. Barely a few hours after being elected to the presidency of the commission on the links between terrorism networks, apology for terrorism, and political responsible finally resigned. Sophie Pantel, PS deputy for Lozère, was the only elected representative of the four left -handed groups to sit at the Bureau de l’Invec. The secretariat and the vice-presidency distributed between RN, LR and central block.
Sophie Pantel explains that she discovered only after the composition of the office and ” that in the gaze “Of this composition” which does not respect the representativeness of all sensitivities ”, She does not wish to ensure the presidency. She sent a letter to the administration of the Assembly as well as to its group president Boris Vallaud.
The office, a body made up of members of the commission of inquiry, is responsible for organizing its work, and notably debates people to audition. The presidency was to return to an opposition group, and Sophie Pantel was elected against Aymeric Caron, related LFI.
At the end of the vote, the rebellious denounced before the press an agreement between “The macronist camp, the right and the extreme right” for them “Exclude from the body” which allows “Inforce the choices of people who will be interviewed”in order to make the commission a ” trial “ against their group.
“Unfortunately, we see once again the methods worthy of the mafia of LFI: blackmail, threatening and intimidation. The PS had the opportunity to show that they are on the right side of the Republic, it is missed ”reacted to the AFP the commission rapporteur, the deputy LR Vincent Jeanbrun.
The vote to designate the new chairman of the committee will take place on July 8, according to those around him. The commission of inquiry, requested by the group of Laurent Wauquiez (LR), was validated in mid-June by the Assembly and wants to investigate the links between political leaders and networks supporting “Terrorist action or propagating Islamist ideology”.
Laurent Wauquiez had returned after a first failure two weeks earlier, the assembly having deemed inadmissible his first request which explicitly aimed at France Insoumise in his proposal for resolution. “The Wauquiez commission of inquiry is reaching unrivaled clowning”reacted to X the head of rebellious deputies Mathilde Panot after the announcement of the resignation.
