Maximum penalty for the insubordinate deputy. After publishing a photo in which he puts his foot in a balloon with the image of Labor Minister Olivier Dussopt, the Seine-Saint-Denis deputy was excluded for 15 days from the National Assembly.
Under the protests of the deputies of the insubordinate France, the deputies decided by voting seated standing, after a meeting of the office of the Assembly that had proposed this sanction.
“We ask you to leave the National Assembly compound,” Yaël Braun-Pivet, president of the Assembly, said after the vote.
This is the most severe disciplinary sanction for parliamentarians. It entails the prohibition to appear in the Palais Bourbon during fifteen days of session, and the deprivation of half of the parliamentary compensation for two months.
Chahu in the Assembly
This sanction comes after an electric day in the Assembly. This Friday morning, the Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt, expressed his “dismay” after the controversy created by the photo.
Wanting to speak, a little later, in the chamber, Thomas Portes was booed by the Renaissance deputies. “Don’t be surprised, my dear colleague,” Yaël Braun-Pivet, president of the National Assembly, then launched.
Before adding: “I think the chamber asks you for an apology”, to applause from his camp.
“I will withdraw my tweet the day this reform is withdrawn”, then replied Thomas Portes.
In the process, the office of the National Assembly met to listen to the deputy and ask for a sanction.
The sentence of 15 days of exclusion was also described as “disproportionate” by Mathilde Panot, president of the LFI group in the Assembly. On his Twitter account, Jean-Luc Mélenchon described the decision as “pillory”.
“After the pillory of Thomas Portes, railway deputy, Macron will prohibit all riots in the country’s celebrations,” denounced the former presidential candidate in a tweet.
Source: BFM TV
