Heat stroke in the hemicycle. Bailiffs of the Assembly had to intervene on Thursday, November 29 between several deputies, following an incident caused in the hemicycle by the MoDem deputy Nicolas Turquois, on the sidelines of the debate on the repeal of the pension reform , according to parliamentary sources.
There are now two versions facing each other: “Your colleague came to threaten me (…) Fortunately Mr. Fesneau [qui dirige le groupe MoDem à l’Assemblée] that you were there to detain the colleague from your group and that the bailiffs intervened, because otherwise I'm not sure that I wouldn't have gotten a dough”denounced Antoine Léaument from his MP bench.
On France Bleu Poitou, Nicolas Turquois recognized that “it is never legitimate to lose your temper. Afterwards I expressed what I feel as a man“.
The incident caused a lot of reaction from the political class: on Thursday evening, LFI deputy Ugo Bernalicis confided his annoyance, after a day of high tension. “The Macronist deputies increased the tension and allowed themselves to be overwhelmed. We have the spectacle of a pseudo-majority which is in dire straits, which is at the end of its race“, he emphasized.
Maud Bregeon, government spokesperson, judged this episode as follows on Friday:deplorable and distressing“. On France 2, she believes that this type of event “does a lot of harm to all politicians” and the image they project. “I can only deplore it because in the end, beyond individualities, it is the image that we send collectively that is weakened“, she adds. Faced with criticism, Maud Bregeon nevertheless believes that it is “completely legitimate and healthy“only”MEPs defend their beliefs with amendments“.
“What the Macronists did is absolutely violent” defends for her part Manon Aubry, European deputy LFI, on franceinfo, the day after her party's parliamentary niche in the National Assembly. The left and the RN failed to pass the bill aimed at repealing the reform of pensions because “the Macronist deputies have chosen to engage in parliamentary obstruction”specifies Manon Aubry.
According to the MEP, the “Macronist deputies add to the social violence of this pension reform, today physical violence“. “They will carry for a very long time this heavy responsibility of having crushed this bill and of having crushed, with it, democracy.“, warns Manon Aubry who “see you next week” pour “the return match with the motion of censure” : “It is a safe bet that the government will pay its own price.“
