Are you freezing this late autumn? A little detour through the Assembly should warm you up. In recent days, the temperature of the hemicycle has reached values rarely observed. Thursday evening, during the debates on the repeal of the pension reform, the parliamentary enclosure even almost turned into a boxing ring, when the MoDem deputy Nicolas Turquois violently took on the socialist Mickaël Bouloux, who pushed back. “My family was threatened! And these are people from your village! » would have thrown the first to the second, visibly taken aback.
The situation worsened when the Insoumis deputies Thomas Portes and Antoine Léaument ordered Nicolas Turquois to leave the hemicycle. Furibard, the latter screams in their direction, before being evacuated by the bailiffs. “A hell of a messregrets a friend of the MoDem deputy. Of course, it should never have come to this, but you have to see the dumpsters of m… that we get on our heads. »
Friday morning, on BFM TV, the elected official from Vienna apologized before returning to the reasons for his outburst. In the preceding days, Nicolas Turquois reported having been the subject of an online harassment campaign because of his opposition to the repeal of the pension reform. When his family begins to be targeted, the man sees red: “That I take responsibility for my political decisions is one thing. Putting pressure on my loved ones is another. » At the origin of his misfortunes, according to him, the networks of La France insoumise which have been sharing for several days on social networks the list of deputies accused of parliamentary obstruction. “This is not an illusion: we are dealing with a form of harassment, of permanent pressure. At some point you end up breaking down”deplores MoDem deputy Erwan Balanant.
Small, diffuse, daily violence that weighs on morale
A destabilization strategy that can take several forms. Last week, some Common Base parliamentarians received hundreds, sometimes thousands, of standard emails, urging them to withdraw their amendments to allow the vote on the repeal of the pension reform to take place: “By preventing the vote, you are therefore acting against the meaning of democracy! » warns the text downloadable from the La France insoumise website.
Politics, a combat sport
Between Tuesday and Thursday, the day the LFI bill was examined, EPR MP Violette Spillebout, for example, received more than 5,000 emails to her Assembly address. And if that wasn't enough, the site of the far-left movement offers to download the images of these same deputies, like a western wanted poster, accompanied by the message: “They are trying to repeal the repeal of retirement at 64! Write to him! » followed by the email address of the parliamentarian concerned. “They could almost make the RN sympathetic to us”laments a socialist heavyweight (but not to the point of dissociating himself from his methods). “You never know, you are not safe from dissolution”smiles a strategist from the New Popular Front. Is he personally offended by the methods of the Insoumis? Nay! “That MPs are drowning in emails before voting on an important text is nothing new. When they were in the absolute majority, they sat on it! Since they are no longer, they can't handle the pressure”he points out coldly. Before inviting them to change jobs if they prefer to be “hidden”.
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Words that make a Horizons MP jump: “Political disagreement does not allow the trampling of common decency. » Unless we consider, like the party of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, that everything that is not “him” is unworthy of consideration. A superiority complex that sometimes goes so far as to refuse to say hello. Not to mention these small, diffuse, daily, even insignificant, acts of violence which weigh down the morale of certain deputies. “It’s Paul Vannier who responds to you with a smile full of condescension, it’s Ugo Bernalicis who turns his back on you when you speak, it’s all these dark looks aimed at you at each of your interventions”says a Macronist pillar, exhausted. “It’s like that, politics is a combat sport”justifies an Insoumis deputy. You still have to not hit below the belt.
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