The heated altercation which broke out Thursday evening between two deputies on the sidelines of the debate on the repeal of the pension reform is not to the taste of Yaël Braun-Pivet. The President of the National Assembly reacted to the incident in a press release on Friday, November 29, opening the door to possible sanctions.
The climate is tense in the National Assembly. In the midst of a period of uncertainty for the government, threatened with censorship by the opposition, the parliamentary niche of La France insoumise ended with a heated altercation between elected officials, Thursday, November 28. A clash took place between two deputies from the MoDem and the Socialist Party, on the verge of coming to blows, on the sidelines of the debate on the repeal of the pension reform proposed by the left. Violence that the President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, strongly condemned in a reaction this Friday, November 29.
In a press release published this Friday and notably relayed by TF1 Info, Yaël Braun-Pivet deplored the “sad spectacle given to the French”recalling that “Invectives and altercations have no place in the hemicycle”. And to emphasize that “attempts at pressure or intimidation” of certain parliamentarians – from the LFI group, which she does not name – are “unacceptable and unworthy of a democracy”.
Threats behind the invective
Around 10 p.m. Thursday evening, while the left accused the presidential camp of preventing with a flood of amendments any debate on the repeal of the pension reform, included in the program of the parliamentary niche of La France insoumise – which lasted until 'at midnight – MoDem deputy Nicolas Turquois attacked his socialist colleague, Mickaël Bouloux.
The first complained to the second of receiving threats involving his family for opposing the repeal of the pension reform. What he subsequently confirmed to our colleagues at France Bleu Poitou. “They are people from your village!”would have launched Nicolas Turquois, according to Le Figaroaggressively approaching the elected PS of Ille-et-Vilaine. Parliamentarians, including the president of the MoDem group in the Hemicycle, Marc Fesneau, then intervened to separate them. LFI deputy Antoine Léaument, who asked Nicolas Turquois to leave if he did not calm down, asserts that the elected official then directed his anger at him, before being evacuated by bailiffs.
A “possible sanction” against the MoDem deputy
Condemning in his press release “anything which contributes to maintaining a deleterious climate in the hemicycle and in the public debate, in particular the photo montages, the lists throwing the deputies to pasture on social networks, the harassment exercised on some of them, even on their loved ones”Yaël Braun-Pivet wanted to indicate that a bureau would soon meet to decide on a “possible sanction” towards Nicolas Turquois, who has since apologized.
