A strong symbol. While Adrien Quatennens was applauded this Tuesday in the National Assembly by some of his rebel colleagues, and booed by elected representatives of the majority, several environmental deputies left the chamber. Parliamentarians were examining article 1 of the pension reform when Adrien Quatennens intervened to defend an amendment. His first speech in the chamber since his conviction for domestic violence.
Outraged, several deputies left their places at the announcement of the intervention, in particular the environmentalists Sandrine Rousseau, Marie-Charlotte Garin, Sophie Taillé-Polian and Sandra Regol, as well as the communist Elsa Faucillon.
“We are not asking for lights. We are only acting conscientiously. And in silence,” Sandra Regol told AFP.
“It was about marking the occasion for the first time”
“It was a way of carrying a political message. And sometimes silence and a way out is more promising than the turmoil that we could see in the chamber afterwards,” ecologist Marie-Charlotte Garin explained to the BFMTV microphone.
Should we expect a similar reaction during the next speeches from the honorary member of the North? “No, not for us. It was a matter of marking the occasion for the first time,” replies the ecologist.
She and several of her peers in the Nupes judged that Adrien Quatennens’ return to the Assembly was “too soon”. Sentenced to four months in prison by the Criminal Court of Lille, the former lieutenant of Jean-Luc Mélenchon was suspended from the group of LFI deputies until April.
Consulted about the BFMTV, the head of the EELV, Marine Tondelier, regretted the intervention of the deputy from the North.
“I wanted to talk about pensions and I have to talk about Adrien Quatennens,” he said, believing that “it’s difficult for him to come back tonight, this week, right now.”
“He can resign, depend on the vote and if the voters decide to re-elect him, he comes back,” he added.
On the BFMTV microphone last December, Adrien Quatennens had refused to resign. “If I resign tomorrow, it would be a rather dangerous precedent that would open the way to the instrumentalization of precious life in politics. There are 577 men and women in the National Assembly, not above women and above men, but they can make mistakes,” he said. .
Source: BFM TV
