MP Hugo Prevost excluded from the LFI group due to “serious acts of a sexual nature”

The parliamentary group La France insoumise (LFI) announced on Tuesday October 8 that it had excluded the Isère MP Hugo Prevost for acts of a sexual nature.

The group explains, in a press release, that it was contacted at the end of September 2024 by the Vigilance Committee against Sexist and Sexual Violence (CVSS) of LFI “concerning serious acts of a sexual nature which may constitute prior criminal offences” in the election of the deputy. This 25-year-old former student unionist was elected for the first time in July 2024 against former Macronist minister Olivier Véran.

After the hearing of the deputy and in view of the elements of the CVSS, the parliamentary group met on Tuesday “pronounced the exclusion of the deputy”, “in accordance with the principles of the signed charter” by legislative candidates, committing to “defend feminist values ​​and combat sexist and sexual violence”.

He emphasizes that this decision can never “to substitute” to a court decision and “reiterates its unwavering commitment to the fight against gender-based and sexual violence”.

LFI already shaken by the Quatennens affair

Insoumise France was shaken at the end of 2022 by the affair of deputy Adrien Quatennens, convicted of domestic violence, who joined the benches of the National Assembly barely a month after his conviction. The LFI group had temporarily excluded him for four months, but several members of the movement had denounced his return to it.

The Student Union, which Hugo Prévost co-founded, reports for its part in a long press release that it has collected “testimonies” reporting “acts of moral and sexual harassment, patterns of predation, serious criminally reprehensible acts of a sexual nature”.

These facts “span a period from 2020 to 2024 and would have continued after the departure of Hugo Prevost from the national team (…) in March”adds the student organization which denounces “a desire for sexual and political control of women”. The organization adds that “the majority of the facts (…) had been known to some for several months or even several years”. She asks that “justice be done” and urges the MP to “resign from his mandate”.