On the gong… and within a vow. The National Assembly approved the bill that allows the creation of “a court specializing in domestic violence” this Thursday at midnight, right at the end of the LR parliamentary niche, a session during which a group has its hands in the order of the day, but only for one day for the opposition.
The text, carried by the deputy Aurélien Pradié and rejected in advance in the Laws commission, collected 41 votes in favor, including those from the left and the extreme right, while 40 majority parliamentarians voted against, in a hemicycle empty.
Quickly, Aurélien Pradié, accustomed to salty projections, turned on the blue heater. To defend the text of him, the LR presidential candidate, he begins with an alliteration. “Wait,” he repeats at the beginning of the sentence before listing the number of women murdered by his spouses in recent years.
“Killers run faster than us”
“Spain did not wait,” Lotois then opposes to underline that the Iberian country has acquired a specialized jurisdiction since 2004. Conclusion of the 36-year-old elected official: “While we hesitate, women die. Murderers run faster than us much faster.”
For its part, the government is trotting. The executive does not want to grant a victory to the right over this text. Basically, there is no major disagreement. “Yes, we must improve the judicial treatment of violence against women,” acknowledges Éric Dupond-Moretti, Minister of Justice.
At the beginning of September, his counterpart in Equality between women and men went further in the JDD: “We need specialized justice”, declared Isabelle Rome simply. However, she referred the issue to a parliamentary mission, whose conclusions are scheduled for the end of March.
“It wasn’t you who implemented it, it was us”
With his text, Aurélien Pradié could, therefore, remove the table from the government. And rather twice than once. Already in 2019, the Lot deputy had anticipated the executive, which had just launched a Grenelle against domestic violence, by approving a bill against violence against women. This made it possible, in particular, to generalize the anti-reconciliation bracelet.
In the chamber, Éric Dupond-Moretti opposed Aurélien Pradié. “Based on what objective documented evaluation, could you conclude that the vertical creation of a specialized court, without an impact study, as was proposed to you tonight, would bring the slightest advance?”, he wonders, before answering calmly: “No one, I mean no one, here, can answer.”
A little later, after a list of actions carried out by the Government, he mentions the anti-conciliation bracelets “that I generalized in 2021”. He explains to Pradié: “You took this text, you voted for it, perfect, but once the text is there, you still have to implement it. And it’s not you who implemented it, it’s us.” And the Keeper of the Seals attacks: “You have, but you have not done everything, you are not the slightest fight [contre les violences faites aux femmes]. It is a cross-cutting issue that concerns us all.”
“The same salad as last week”
The parades of arms take place between Éric Dupond-Moretti-Isabelle Rome on one side and Aurélien Pradié on the other. The debates drag on. The executive touches the clock. Antoine Léaument raises a point of order. “I am afraid that if the minister’s word is not limited when he has exhausted his arguments, this will cause tumultuous scenes,” asserted the deputy of La France insoumise. “We had to live in a parliamentary niche sabotaged by the government and the majority. I wouldn’t want our fellow Republicans to suffer the same fate,” he continues.
On the National Association side, Deputy Edwige Díaz also believes that “the government has decided to make us the same salad as last week.” In question: the text carried by LFI during its parliamentary niche last Thursday pointed to the reinsertion of unvaccinated caregivers. Given the consensus of the opposition, the majority had played obstructions so that the text would not be completed.
No encore is repeated this time. To expedite the process, deputies from the left and extreme right withdrew some of their amendments. The text finally comes to an end. He is adopted. The members clap. For LR, it’s a second win. Earlier in the day, a bill to increase farm pensions was unanimously approved.
Source: BFM TV
