La France Insoumise’s sanctions against Adrien Quatennens are not unanimous. Sentenced to 4 months in prison for domestic violence, the representative from the North is “temporarily” removed from the movement until April 13. Socialists, environmentalists and communists want to go much further.
“A deputy convicted of domestic violence cannot sit down. He must resign. Out of respect for women, our struggles and the values we defend,” said deputy Sandrine Rousseau on her Twitter account.
“We would have pronounced the exclusion”
Cyrielle Chatelain, the head of the environmental group in the National Assembly, shares his point of view, judging that any “elected person convicted of sexism and sexual violence must resign.”
For its part, Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s movement does not demand his departure from the Palais-Bourbon. In addition to her suspension for 4 months, the rebellious deputy must attend a “responsibility course on violence against women” with feminist associations.
“Be fair and audible on this file”
These decisions no longer seem to convince the Socialists. Without calling for the resignation of Adrien Quatennens, Olivier Faure, the head of the Socialists made his disapproval known.
“We (the Socialists) would have pronounced the exclusion. A man convicted of such acts cannot sit on our benches,” explained the first secretary of the PS to the BFMTV microphone.
“I’m not going any further. I am not president of LFI”, however, Olivier Faure qualified.
If the rebels unite for the moment, the atmosphere could change in the coming days when the return of Adrien Quatennens, scheduled for the end of last November and finally postponed after new accusations by his wife, had been at the origin of deep unrest. . The deputy Clémentine Autain had asked her colleagues “to be fair and audible in this file”.
Source: BFM TV
