LFI deputy Thomas Portes sanctioned after his threatening remarks made in the National Assembly: News

Three weeks after making remarks deemed “threatening and insulting” in the hemicycle, LFI deputy Thomas Portes was sanctioned by the office of the National Assembly on Wednesday, November 20. A call to order with entry in the minutes was issued.

For comments “threatening and insulting” held during a session of questions to the government in the hemicycle, the deputy of La France insoumise Thomas Portes was sanctioned by the office of the National Assembly, Wednesday November 20. He chose by 11 votes to 2 and one abstention to inflict on the deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis a call to order with entry in the minutes, reported The Parisian. This is the second possible sanction on a scale of four.

It is the highest executive body of the lower house, which brings together the vice-presidents, quaestors and secretaries around the President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet, who made this decision. “Insults and threats have no place in the National Assembly“, wrote Yaël Braun-Pivet in a message published on X, with the sanction press release.

Deprivation of a quarter of the parliamentary allowance for one month

Thomas Portes was notably accused of the following remarks: “Shut up, you. We’ll take care of you. We’ll explain ourselves outside, you’ll see”. These remarks, made on October 30 during a question on the situation in the Middle East, were intended for the benches of the National Rally. “MPs have a duty to set an example and must show themselves worthy of the mandate entrusted to them by the French”judged Yaël Braun-Pivet in his press release, stressing that the LFI deputy had already been singled out in the past.

According to several parliamentary sources, representatives of the common base, Liot, a PS and an environmentalist voted in favor of the sanction. LFI spoke out against and the representative of the GDR group (communists and overseas) abstained. The sanction involves deprivation for one month of a quarter of the parliamentary allowance, or 1,482.99 euros.

published on November 21 at 8:01 a.m., Lilian Moy, 6Medias

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