A very hemicycle hemicycle. With the entry into force of the National Group, the quadrupling of the number of rebel deputies and a weakened presidential majority, the National Assembly has been under very high tension since June 19. BFMTV.com invites you to return to the highlights of this new Chamber, six months before the second round of the legislative elections.
• Jean-Philippe Tanguy calls for “silence for France”
It was Jean-Philippe Tanguy who first made an impression, a few weeks into his term in July. The young man only summarizes the strategy of Marine Le Pen and hers 89 deputies who want to become famous.
This former close friend of Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, deputy director of the RN presidential campaign, would have seen himself as president of the Finance Commission.
If Éric Coquerel wins, the one who assumes “living only for politics” quickly takes his notes in the Assembly and scraps himself everywhere. Even if it means sometimes going overboard, like on the purchasing power bill. Booed by the Nupes deputies, Jean-Philippe Tanguy, who then explains his text’s support for the group, suddenly writes: “Silence”.
Picked up by the president of the session, he then shouts, with clenched fists:
“Oh, this cry from the heart! This cry from the heart that, I think, inspired a lot of people among us”, before shouting “silence for France”, under the laughter of his opponents but also some in his camp.
• Aurore Bergé calls on women to “go denounce”
A few weeks after the release of Jean-Philippe Tanguy, the tension rises a bit in the National Assembly. For the first current questions to the Government since the summer holidays, the patron saint of Renaissance deputies puts her foot on the plate. Evoking, without naming him, Adrien Quatennens who a few days before had admitted to having slapped his wife, Aurore Bergé created a stir.
“As soon as you receive a slap, go and denounce (…) We listen to those who speak of their ‘love’ for a man who hits his wife, we ignore the rules of the rule of law”, launches the deputy des Yvelines, to the applause of his field, while aiming at Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
These comments then lead to a virulent reaction from La France insoumise deputies. Danièle Obono thus raises her voice and speaks forcefully to Élisabeth Borne about the policy launched by the government to stop the scourge of violence against women. The invective then earned him a report to the order. For her part, Sandrine Rousseau stands up and makes the sign of the inverted uterus, a feminist symbol.
• Grégoire de Fournas scandalizes with his “returning to Africa”
It is a moment that would have gone well for the National Association, in search of respectability in the National Assembly. When the LFI deputy Carlos Martens Bilongo challenges government over fate of Ocean Vikinga ship off the Italian coast with 230 immigrants on board, Gironde’s elected representative Grégoire de Fournas launches a “returning to Africa” sound.
Given the outcry caused by this exit, the RN deputy assures that his statements have been misrepresented, saying to himself “Sorry for the misunderstanding” aroused by his statement, which he said was addressed to the ship, and not to the rebel deputy.
The argument does not convince the office of the National Assembly that decides on his case. It validates the most serious sanction, namely the amputation of half of his parliamentary allowance for two months – that is, 3,746 euros per month out of a total of 7,493 euros – and prevents him from returning to the Palais-Bourbon for 15 session days.
Since 1958, this sanction had only been applied once, in 2011, against Maxime Gremetz, a communist deputy who had insulted deputies and ministers for 15 minutes.
• The constitutionalization of abortion allows a rare standing ovation
At the end of November, for the first time since the last legislative elections, the presidential majority voted hand in hand with LFI to include the right to abortion in the Constitution, supported by Mathilde Panot, president of the group. Enough to elicit a standing ovation.
Some even see it as a turning point. Until now, “the republican arc” defined by Elisabeth Borne excluded La France insoumise. Last October, Emmanuel Macron came to judge that the rebels were “on the side of disorder and cynicism”.
• Olivier Serva calls a colleague to “shut up”
A few days later, in the middle of a day reserved for LFI proposed texts, the debates took a very stormy turn. During a discussion about the merits of reinstating unvaccinated caregivers, Oliver Serva loses his temper after being repeatedly interrupted.
“You’re going to close it,” the deputy from Guadeloupe (LIOT) then launched at Sylvain Maillard, the interim head of the Renaissance group, to the boos of the presidential majority.
Olivier Serva had left the Macronist group during the previous term, after unsuccessfully demanding the return of unvaccinated hospital caregivers. He had turned it into a campaign argument during the legislative elections.
A guest of BFMTV, the elected representative of Guadeloupe defended himself by speaking of “reflex language”, explaining to express “suffering”. He again denounced a “denial of democracy” by the majority. Olivier Serva has not been sanctioned by the National Assembly.
Source: BFM TV
