“It is not a gift for this great cause”: Franck Riester denounced on Friday the previous day’s vote, against the advice of the Government, of a bill of LR that creates a specialized court for domestic violence.
“We can clearly see that it was Aurélien Pradié’s desire to have a victory in the context of the campaign for the LR presidency, to the detriment of substance and to the detriment of the cause of domestic violence,” lamented the minister. with Parliament on Sud-Radio, on one of the three candidates for the presidency of the Les Républicains party whose first round of elections is scheduled for this weekend.
The National Assembly approved by 41 votes against 40 this Thursday afternoon a bill presented by the young deputy LR as part of his group’s parliamentary niche for the creation of a specialized court for domestic violence, modeled on Spain.
“We ask for a lot in terms of the presence of deputies”
“It is a real problem and it is a bad solution because it would alienate the courts, that is, the magistrates and the justice system, from the victims,” argued Riester, defending the position of Emmanuel Macron to favor specialized magistrates within existing ones. jurisdictions But, he recalled, the government has a relative majority:
“When the opposition comes together, well, we’re defeated.”
Beyond that, he explained that if the ranks of the presidential majority were scarce at the time of the vote on this text, it was because “the deputies, whether they belong to the majority, could not be asked to be 100% permanently.” present in the hemicycle”.
“You have to work on the means that the deputies are given to work more easily”, estimated Mr. Riester, judging that “we ask a lot in terms of the presence of the deputies (…), in session, and also in committee” . “And the French want to see them on the pitch as well to keep in touch,” he observed. Approved at first reading, the proposal will now go to the Senate, with a right-wing majority.
Source: BFM TV
