“I lost my temper”: who is Nicolas Turquois, this MoDem deputy who almost came to blows in the National Assembly?

The day after the tense debate on the repeal of the pension reform where the bailiffs of the hemicycle had to intervene to separate the deputies, the MoDem deputy Nicolas Turquois returned to the incidents at the microphone of BFMTV.

Nicolas Turquois is 52 years old, deputy for the fourth constituency of Vienne since 2017. He is also a member of MoDem, a party affiliated with the Ensemble group, the Macronist parliamentary group. According to the National Assembly website, he is a farmer-owner-operator.

The MoDem deputy would have climbed into the bays in order to be threatening towards the socialist deputy Michael Bouloux. LFI deputy Antoine Léaument also explains that he was threatened when he asked him to leave.

“I lost my temper”

“I lost my temper, as you could say, but because basically, there are things that are unacceptable“, also denouncing “pressures” left-wing deputies. “My family has been threatened! And these are people from your village!” would have launched Nicolas Turquois to the socialist Michael Bouloux. After the publication of lists of deputies who refused the repeal of pensions by LFI deputies on social networks, the MoDem deputy denounces “pressures”.

“Insoumise France has methods that are unacceptable. We do not make lists, we do not send them to the relatives of those who are trying to get involved in politics,” he explains. “MP Bouloux, who is next to me, personally knows my relatives and I asked him what he thought” of the methods of the LFI deputies, which he deals with “scavengers”. “He told me, ‘I’m not sharing that.’ I told him, ‘It would be interesting to say that.’ He told me, ‘No, I can’t.

Apologies to his socialist colleague, but not to Léaument

The MoDem MP declared that he was going to apologize to his colleague Michael Bouloux. On the other hand, he says he does not want to apologize to Antoine Léaument. If the latter assured that “without the intervention of the bailiffs, he would have given me onee”, Nicolas Turquois explains that he did not have “no desire to beat him up“.

He claims to have come to him “dynamically“. President of the MoDem group, Marc Fesneau, declared that the pressure received “don't apologize” the behavior of the MP, specifying “that there was no act of violence”.

The left-wing deputies requested a sanction by the president of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet who denounced “a sad spectacle”, before confirming that MP Turquois will be heard by the office of the National Assembly, which will decide for or against a sanction.