A temporary withdrawal from the group that will not prevent their return to the Palais-Bourbon in the coming weeks. Sentenced to four months in suspended prison for domestic violence, Adrien Quatennens announced Wednesday on BFMTV that he wanted to return to the National Assembly “probably as early as January.”
Much to the annoyance of certain rebels who would have preferred that he respect the spirit of the sanction decided by his group.
“It’s not very correct as a way of doing things and I don’t want to say more,” an insubordinate deputy from La France confessed, on condition of anonymity, to BFMTV.com.
In fact, the group had deliberated for a long time after learning of the deputy’s conviction on Tuesday. The Northern MP-elect has thus received a 4-month “temporary expulsion” from the LFI seats in the Assembly, offering him the chance to sit back within the group on 13 April.
His return is also “conditional on his commitment to follow an accountability course on violence against women” with feminist associations.
In the chamber next to Dupont-Aignan
But Adrien Quatennens will take advantage of the opportunity to sit in the Palais-Bourbon apart from any political group. This is called being a non-attached deputy. In this capacity, he will join, for example, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan and Emmanuelle Ménard. However, his word in the chamber must be very limited, the time he will speak being linked to the number of elected members of each group.
“I understand that he wants to return quickly,” says a collaborator of an elected rebel. “It is his right as long as justice allows him since he has not received a sentence of disqualification.”
“But we really go through idiots,” continues this same source. “He is disabled for 4 months but he comes anyway. It is incomprehensible.”
By way of explanation, the deputy-elect from the North assured our antenna “simply asking for the proportion” of the sentences and wished “to be able to resume normal parliamentary activity.”
“A Lack of Moderation”
What to convince their schools? Officially, it seems so. “We cannot ask a deputy to no longer come to the Assembly,” replied Mathilde Panot, president of the LFI group, in the Public Senate this Thursday. François Ruffin, without condemning this return, saw in it “a lack of restraint”.
“It takes time to digest (a judicial sentence) and know what we are doing for society and politics” in RTL.
Without specifically mentioning his presence this coming January, MP Marianne Maximimi expressed her disapproval on her Twitter account, accusing her colleague of “minimizing and relativizing her own violence.” “It’s serious,” said the chosen Puy-de-Dôme. “It hurts our fights against violence against women.”
A feminist demonstration on D-Day
Proof that her landing in a few weeks will not be easy: the feminist collective We All will organize a demonstration on the day of her return, according to information from BFMTV.com.
“The only thing we can thank you for is helping us organize our future elections,” says EELV Paris councilor Raphaëlle Rémy-Leleu. Sandrine Rousseau and Fabien Roussel have called for her resignation.
Source: BFM TV
