Following an incident caused in the hemicycle by the centrist elected official, the bailiffs of the National Assembly had to intervene between the deputy for Vienne and two of his colleagues, the LFI Antoine Léaument and the PS Mickaël Bouloux, on the evening of Thursday November 28.
The scene perfectly illustrates the level of tension reached yesterday during the examination of the parliamentary niche of LFI, and more broadly in French politics since the appointment of the Barnier government – even if everything was very far from calm and moderation for well a long time. There was an hour and a half left before the midnight gong and the failure of the repeal of the pension reform, after a whole day of obstruction of the “common base” and its denunciation by the NFP and the RN – which, in turn, sparked an avalanche of emails and sometimes threats against the deputies of the Barnier camp, whose amendments and votes (already public) were posted by their opponents. So everything was in place to make it happen. And it did not fail: at 10:30 p.m. or so, the MoDem deputy Nicolas Turquois had to be exfiltrated from the hemicycle by his colleagues but also the ushers of the Assembly because he had come, during a suspension of the session, from approach an elected official PS “red with rage while pointing a finger at him menacingly a few centimeters from his face”, reports Le Figaro.
“My family was threatened! And these are people from your village!” would have launched the centrist MP at Mickaël Bouloux. The fight was narrowly avoided by its group president, Marc Fesneau, but the rebellious Antoine Léaument and Thomas Portes demanded that he “sort” of the hemicycle. New heat stroke from Turquois, which ends up being evacuated. And Léaument considered himself lucky, when the debates resumed, not to have “took a donut”. Fesneau then rather weakly deplored the attitude of his deputy. “The MP in question will explain this in due time… There was no act of violence. […] These are things that happen.”
And this quasi-fight, worthy of the scenes from exotic Parliaments that we believe to be unimaginable here, arouses much less outraged reactions from the coalition in power than when (at random) rebels are implicated for their «violence» or their “threatening attitude”, without them ever going so close to physical aggression. All this, however, shocked the deputies, an elected EPR confident after the fact, all with well-supported implications: “Everyone was hot. But I drink mint diabolos…» And a rebel to indicate that Turquois “did not come to apologize because he was not in good condition”, adding that the centrist had “the heavy elbow”.
