Mobilized this Saturday in processions against the pension reform, the rebels respond after the sanction imposed on Thomas Portes. The LFI deputy Ugo Bernalicis showed his support for his colleague, expelled for 15 days from the National Assembly after the publication of a photo where he put his foot on a ball with the image of the Labor Minister, Olivier Dussopt.
“Damn, I didn’t have time to put pretty heads on it,” Ugo Bernalicis wrote in a tweet accompanied by a photo of himself in protest, brandishing a blank balloon. Same staging for the deputy Antoine Léaument in Paris.
Manuel Bompard, deputy for Bouches-du-Rhône, also posted a tweet in reference to this matter. Accompanied by an emoji representing a soccer ball, his message from him conveys a snapshot of the demonstration in Marseille, in which a participant is also brandishing a soccer ball. Photo also transmitted by Jean-Luc Mélenchon in a tweet.
At the Parisian rally, balloons were released from the platform of La France insoumise and exchanged between elected officials, activists and protesters.
The most serious disciplinary sanction
The author of the controversial message, Thomas Portes, received the highest disciplinary sanction for a deputy, like Grégoire de Fournas (RN), author of comments described as racist in November. The rebel, wearing his tricolor scarf, was staged this Thursday on the social network, with his foot resting on a ball with the image of the Minister of Labor, who is bringing the reform to the Assembly.
Despite requests from the presidential camp, he refused to apologize on Friday, causing an uproar. The session was suspended, the office of the Assembly, the highest collegiate body, met and requested its “temporary exclusion” for “contempt” or “provocation.”
This disciplinary sanction, validated by a standing vote in the chamber, implies for him the prohibition to appear at the Palais Bourbon during fifteen days of sessions, that is, until mid-March, and the deprivation of half of the parliamentary allowance for two months.
Thomas Portes “assumes”
“I don’t have to apologize for a tweet that was not a call to hate,” Thomas Portes said on Saturday at the BFMTV microphone, stressing that his publication was in no way a “call for violence.”
“I said if (this tweet) was misinterpreted by people, I regret it,” he added, however.
The deputy was “surprised by such a level of sanction”, denouncing an “instrumentalization” by the majority in the framework of the debate on the pension reform.
Source: BFM TV
