The vice-president of the National Assembly Naïma Moutchou accused the rebellious deputy Manuel Bompard of having threatened her on Thursday during a session suspension. The evening was very tense in the hemicycle on Thursday, the day of the LFI parliamentary niche.
Horizons MP Naïma Moutchou accused this Friday, November 29, rebellious MP Manuel Bompard of having threatened her in the National Assembly the day before. In a press release published on
“During a session suspension, Manuel Bompard threw the following in my face several times: 'You are going to pay for it, you are going to pay for what you are doing, you are complicit yes , you will pay that yes yes, including electorally'”, writes Naïma Moutchou in her press release.
The way in which Naïma Moutchou chaired the public session seems to be at the origin of the anger of the rebellious group. Also on “None of us has ever proposed to resolve political differences other than through voting,” he assured.
Responding to Naïma Moutchon's publication, LFI MP Ugo Bernalicis also affirmed that “a red line has indeed been crossed. A presidency that participates in obstruction is a scandal! I was at the forefront .And this is not the first time…”
A very tense day at the Assembly
Naïma Moutchou judges that she was targeted because of her gender and her origins. “Why were those who succeeded me as president (two men), applying the same rules as me, not the targets of such intimidation? Why are I being attacked with such virulence? Is it because I am a woman? And a woman with an immigrant background?” she asked in her press release.
Manuel Bompard, for his part, believes that these “accusations of racism or machismo” add “to infamy”. “Let's put it bluntly: if the following session went well, it is because the partiality shown by Naïma Moutchou in the organization of the debates disappeared with the following presidencies, even though they were also supporters of the government”, he said.
The tension was very high this Thursday in the hemicycle, where the Modem deputy Nicolas Turquois almost came to blows with other parliamentarians. “I lost my temper,” he conceded on BFMTV, while bailiffs had to intervene late Thursday evening on the sidelines of the heated debate on the repeal of the pension reform.
LFI deputy Antoine Léaument also said he was threatened by Nicolas Turquois when he asked him to leave.
At the origin of Nicolas Turquois's anger, “list denunciation practices” likely to reach his “relatives” and “unacceptable”: La France insoumise has in fact published the names of the Macronist and right-wing deputies having opposed the repeal of retirement at 64, by practicing obstruction with the tabling of a thousand amendments.
In a press release published Friday, the President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, “strongly” condemned the “incidents” that occurred on Thursday, recalling that “invectives and altercations have no place in the hemicycle” . The Ensemble representative “deplores the multiple challenges to the session chairs, which contribute to the drift of the debates which it is time to put an end to”.
La France insoumise had placed at the top of the texts of its “parliamentary niche” – the annual day reserved for its texts -, a bill aimed at repealing the 2023 reform which raised the legal retirement age from 62 at 64 years old. But the text could not be voted on, due to hundreds of amendments tabled by the government coalition in order to slow down the work which necessarily had to end at midnight, and heated debates marked by multiple points of order and suspensions of sessions. .
