Goodbye twitchers in the chamber. The office of the National Assembly ruled this Wednesday on the ban on streaming platforms in session. Much to the annoyance of certain rebels who had made her a privileged tool.
The Lower House had for several weeks in the spotlight Ugo Bernalicis and Antoine Léaument, the two LFI deputies who use Twitch to allow Internet users to follow the debates in the chamber with live comments.
Ban on “platforms that transmit video streams”
If until now the Palais-Bourbon regulations did not directly mention the possibility of filming the session live, now the legal vagueness is cleared up.
“The Table confirmed that the provisions that prohibit deputies from phoning inside the chamber also apply to the use of any communication tool with the outside of the chamber, in particular on platforms that broadcast the video or audio stream of the debates “, can be read in his report.
“Very specifically, we broadcast live from the National Assembly on our channel and in the upper left part of the screen you can see me, I take the opportunity to answer questions in the chat, explain the text we are voting on, what they are defending,” Ugo deciphered Bernalicis, aka “Le Députwitch”, told BFMTV.com in early November.
This use has earned them two calls to order in recent weeks during the LOPMI law on the objectives of the Ministry of the Interior.
A tool to “draw people in” to the work of parliamentarians
If views were kept modest, audience peaks rarely exceeding a hundred viewers, the approach was intended to widely disseminate parliamentary work.
“We want to bring people with us and take sharp debates out of the realm of specialists,” the rebel explained to us again.
It is not enough to convince the renaissance deputies who do not appreciate the methods of the rebels on social networks.
“You are a group of TikTokeurs in search of rumors,” launched the Renaissance deputy Fanta Berete in the chamber last October.
A Twitch studio in an office
His colleague Antoine Léaument, an experienced streamer, regrets the decision of the Palais-Bourbon.
“It’s a shame, we didn’t really disturb the session and we opened the Assembly to other people. I think this decision is mainly due to jealousy,” replies the LFI deputy.
He has already set up a studio in his office and plans to use it to continue targeting netizens on Twitch.
Source: BFM TV
