The maximum applied sanction. The National Assembly Office decided on Wednesday morning by unanimity to request the temporal exclusion of the deputy (former Rally National Rally) Christine recorded and the attached rebel Andy Kerbrat before voting in the hemicycle.
“This decision sends a strong and firm message about the duty of exemplarity, which is the responsibility of the elected officials,” said Yaël Braun-Pivet assembly in a press release.
Reserved expenses for the exercise of the attached mandate
The two parliamentarians will be deprived of half of their parliamentary compensation for two months, an amputation of 3,746 euros per month of a total of 7,493 euros. Elected officials will not be able to return to the Palais-Bourbon during the next fifteen days of the session.
Christine Engrand, already suspended by her movement, had been trapped last September by Mediapart. The deputy of Pas-de-Calais has extracted from his progress from the mandate costs to finance the expenses that were in no way linked to their parliamentary activity.
However, the site of the assembly specifies that this progress, whose monthly amount is 5,950 euros, is reserved for “expenses related to the exercise of its mandate.” For example, you can use to buy computer equipment, to pay hotel, restaurant, pressing, gasoline costs …
“Without training”
Christine recorded, dedicated part of this money to a subscription to a dating site, funeral rates (5,971 euros) or to pay the pension of their dogs. The deputy was excluded from his movement after the revelations of Mediapart.
“I did not receive any training” in my choice, he explained calmly, recognizing “errors.”
As for Andy Kerbrat, caught in the act of buying drugs in the Paris subway in October 2024, he is accused of having used his terms of mandates to finance purchase of narcotics.
“Anything with my mandate costs”
If the deputy denies the facts, however, he admitted having “done something with his mandate costs.” However, he states that “he never used his mandate costs to finance his addiction.”
They were used “to convert the money directly into their personal account or even make unjustified payments with the requests of PayPal and Lydia”, for an amount of “almost 25,000 euros,” said Mediapart.
The rebel, who is currently being treated for his addictions, had explained that he had experienced significant financial difficulties linked to his units.
“You cannot tolerate the diverted use of the means assigned to the deputies,” he judges that he judges Yaël Braun-Pivet, lamenting “isolated” acts that “legitimately arouse the anger of the French.”
Very rare sanctions
The prohibition of appearing for two weeks in the assembly with an amputation of half of parliamentary compensation for two months is very rare. So far it has been applied so far only three times. The first was in 2011 against Maxime Gremetz.
The communist deputy They had insulted and threatened the deputies for 15 minutes During a meeting on the nuclear crisis in Japan, after entering the room to complain that several vehicles in parking ministers and managers of the nuclear sector blocked their car.
Deputy RN Grégoire of Fourn “That returns to Africa” During a question to the government of the rebel Carlos Martens Bilongo. The same mole for the deputy Lfi Sébastien Delugu in the spring of 2024 after having shown a Palestinian flag in the Hemicyle.
Source: BFM TV
