New pass of arms in the National Assembly, this Tuesday afternoon, during a session of questions to the government. The RN deputy Alexandre Loubet, who challenged bruno the mayor on France’s industrial sovereignty, he called the minister a “coward” to applause from his group, believing that the latter had not really answered his question.
But the insult did not go unnoticed, and the Minister of Economy demanded a “solemn” apology from the RN group in the Assembly.
“I have the honor to request a solemn apology from the National Association for having used the term ‘coward’ for a person who has always shown courage in his political commitment for 20 years,” Bruno Le Maire launched, visibly angry but supported by the majority. .
“RN deputies will not allow themselves to be threatened”
However, on the side of the target group, we do not intend to comply with the request of this member of the government. On the instructions of Marine Le Pen on Tuesday afternoon, the RN deputies left the chamber.
In the corridors of the National Assembly, Marine Le Pen declared to journalists: “More than answering, he threatens. Well, I regret to remind the Minister of Economy that the RN deputies will not allow themselves to be threatened by a minister whoever she is. We express our disapproval for this conduct leaving the hemicycle”.
“If he can’t keep calm, let him plant strawberries,” he insists to the press.
Bruno Le Maire “still waiting” for an apology
Dans la foulée, the president of the RN group is also responsible for a tweet by pointer du doigt a behavior that qualifies as “inadmissible” et “à l’encontre des valeurs de la République” by Bruno Mayor.
However, nothing works: the Bercy tenant remains in his positions by reaffirming, on the same network, that he is still waiting for the RN group to apologize. “When a deputy insults a minister who has just responded in a republican manner by calling him a ‘coward’, this minister has the right to demand an apology. I’m still waiting for them, ”he wrote on the social network.
The president of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, returned to the incident. She called Alexandre Loubet’s invective towards Bruno Le Maire “an insult”, then announced that she was inflicting a call to order with entry on the record. And the President of the Assembly added: “That does not exempt them from presenting their apologies to the Minister.”
Source: BFM TV
