Tension rose, rose, rose, throughout the examination of the bill aimed at repealing the pension reform, this Thursday. It got so loud that the MoDem deputy Nicolas Turquois, a few seconds after the announcement of yet another suspension of the session, approached the socialist deputy Mickaël Bouloux, very upset, pointing his finger a few millimeters from his face.
The elected official from François Bayrou's party then seems to criticize him for having been personally targeted, even at his home. Many Common Base deputies, throughout the day, explained that they had been victims of cyberharassment campaigns.
The tone rose so loudly that the president of the MoDem group Marc Fesneau was forced to intervene to try to calm his deputy and move him away. At the bottom of the perch, and while a group of deputies began to form, Nicolas Turquois once again clashed with two rebellious deputies, including Antoine Léaument. On several occasions, his colleague Philippe Vigier and also Marc Fesneau were required to detain him, before taking him out of the hemicycle with the support of a bailiff from the National Assembly.
After a few minutes of interruption, the session resumed as best it could. “Your colleague came to threaten me,” denounced Antoine Léaument during a point of order. Fortunately, Mr. Fesneau, that you were there to detain the colleague from your group and that the bailiffs intervened, because otherwise I am not sure that I would not have gotten a dough.”
The head of the MoDem group in the Assembly Marc Fesneau, visibly anxious to calm things down, recognized “a lively exchange” with a colleague from the MoDem group. “The MP in question will explain it when the time comes.” “After this slip-up where some people came to blows, I decided to shorten my suffering,” commented an elected official from the Ensemble pour la République group as he left the Assembly.
Sitting at the perch, the vice-president of the National Assembly Xavier Breton announced that he will invite President Yaël Braun-Pivet to return to this incident at the next meeting of the office of the National Assembly. Office of the National Assembly which, remember, has powers of sanctions against deputies. This is not the first time that MP Nicolas Turquois has been noticed for an altercation of this type. On July 19, 2024, in the corridors of the Assembly, the latter had already almost come to blows with RN parliamentarians Jean-Philippe Tanguy and Émeric Salmon.
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