A heated altercation occurred Thursday, November 28 at the National Assembly between MoDem deputy Nicolas Turquois and LFI deputy Antoine Léaument. Already involved in several incidents, Nicolas Turquois was escorted out of the Hemicycle by the bailiffs.
The National Assembly was once again the scene of a sad spectacle. Thursday, November 28, MoDem deputy Nicolas Turquois left the chamber after being at the heart of a fight with one of his colleagues from La France insoumise. While the deputies were debating the LFI bill to repeal the pension reform, Nicolas Turquois took Antoine Léaument (LFI) to task, forcing Marc Fesneau, leader of the MoDem deputies, to intervene to try to restore calm.
Born July 26, 1972 in Tours (Indre-et-Loire), Nicolas Turquois is a member of MoDem and deputy for the 4th constituency of Vienne since 2017. Married and father of three children, he was elected municipal councilor of Ouzilly- Vignolles, a small town associated with the town of Moncontour, in 2001. He resigned from this position in 2006 to join the UDF. In 2010, the farmer, an agricultural engineer by training, was named head of the MoDem list in Vienne for the regional elections.
Since that year, he has held the position of departmental president of the “Democratic Movement for Vienna”. Invested in 2012 by his party to be a candidate for the legislative elections in the 4th constituency of Vienne, he was eliminated in the first round with 2.61% of the votes. In 2014, he was re-elected municipal councilor of Moncontour and elected deputy mayor of Ouzilly-Vignolles, a commune which is part of the Communauté de Communes du Pays Loudunais.
In the 2017 legislative elections, in accordance with the proposed government alliance proposed by François Bayrou to Emmanuel Macron, certain constituencies are reserved for MoDem candidates. Nicolas Turquois is thus once again invested in the 4th constituency of Vienne. This time, he came first in the first round, facing Anne-Florence Bourat, candidate of the right and center (LR-UDI), thus beating the outgoing MP Véronique Massonneau (ecologist, supported by the Socialist Party). He was elected in the second round with 51% of the votes.
This is not the first time that the MP has been involved in incidents at the National Assembly. During the debate on pension reform in February 2020, Nicolas Turquois caused a session incident, by declaring to the parliamentary opposition “the Republic is us, and you are nothing”. In July 2024, he was also expelled from the Hemicycle by the bailiffs, who narrowly avoided a “physical altercation” with RN deputies Emeric Salmon and Jean-Philippe Tanguy.
A video on social networks
This Thursday, a video of the altercation was revealed online. It shows the MoDem deputy approaching his comrade, visibly annoyed, before being held back by his colleagues and then leaving the room. The scene seems to have started with a first attack by Nicolas Turquois against the PS deputy Mickaël Bouloux. The socialist, who was initially impassive, ended up rejecting Nicolas Turquois. This is where Antoine Léaument intervened to ask Nicolas Turquois to leave, which again provoked the anger of the latter who approached him to threaten him.
“Fortunately, Mr. Fesneau, you were there to hold him back. Because otherwise, I am not sure of the fact that at the end of the evening, I did not take a donut,” commented Antoine Léaument after the incident. Xavier Breton, president of the session, indicated that this incident will be discussed at the next meeting of the Assembly office.
