The delegation of European deputies of La France Insoumise announced this Monday that it had excluded the elected representative Anne-Sophie Pelletier from its group, for “harassment, inappropriate and aggressive behavior” towards 13 parliamentary assistants since 2019.
In a statement, the delegation indicates that “13 parliamentary assistants” reported “degraded working conditions and harassing, inappropriate and aggressive behavior towards them by Anne-Sophie Pelletier”, since the beginning of her mandate in 2019.
“In this context, we have made the decision to exclude Anne-Sophie Pelletier from our delegation,” add the rebel MEPs, judging this behavior “incompatible with the values” of their delegation.
The latter says it has ensured that measures are taken to protect parliamentary assistants “while allowing them to keep their jobs”.
An investigation by Mediapart, published in 2021, reported acts of harassment, recall our colleagues at Franceinfo.
Other parliamentarians sanctioned
Recently, in the National Assembly, the LFI representative for Seine-Saint-Denis Raquel Garrido was also sanctioned by her group. Without being excluded, she was prohibited from being “a group bearer in parliamentary proceedings for a period of four months.”
He was accused of having harmed “the good collective functioning of the parliamentary group” through “the dissemination of false information in the press” or “the ad hominem questioning and denigration of several members of the group.” Members of the group indicated that he was also accused of having “humiliated collaborators” in the Assembly.
Raquel Garrido claims to have been sanctioned for having expressed her disagreement with “the way in which La France insoumise has been managed for a year.”
Another deputy, Adrien Quatennens, close to Jean-Luc Melenchon, sentenced in December 2022 to four months in prison for violence against his ex-partner, had also been, in parallel with this judicial decision, suspended from the LFI group in the Assembly for four months.
Source: BFM TV
