Most smelled good. The scenario eventually turned into a fiasco. Now she’s in trouble. And in various ways. However, the story started off well for her. Aurore Bergé, patron saint of the Renaissance deputies, presented a bill on Thursday aimed at punishing the perpetrators of violence, including those committed against the spouse, with a penalty of disqualification.
The text was released on January 11, the day Adrien Quatennens returned to the Palais Bourbon after his conviction for domestic violence. Objective: “to embarrass the rebels”, explains Matthieu Croissandeau, a political columnist for BFMTV, although Aurore Bergé defended herself against presenting an “anti-Quatennens” bill.
“Something Quite Indescribable”
Either way, the mayonnaise did not set. Worse still: the presidential field has missed the mark on wide widths. With, at the culmination of this bad sequence, two arms of honor from the Minister of Justice Éric Dupond-Moretti to Olivier Marleix, leader of the deputies Les Républicains.
Earlier, the latter had reprimanded the majority, calling it an “introspection session”, due to the “11 convictions” in their ranks. In addition to evoking “eight accusations, among them the one addressed to the Guardian of the Seals”, who will be tried by the Court of Justice of the Republic for “illegal appropriation of interests”.
Opposite, Éric Dupond-Moretti fumes and makes it known. Problem for him: LR MP Patrick Hetzel doesn’t miss any of the show and raises “an arm of honor”, denouncing “something quite unmentionable” along the way.
“Presumption of innocence”
“There is not one, but two,” the ex-lawyer replies, bravado, specifying that it is a “branch of honor to the presumption of innocence.”
“I was charged, not convicted,” he insists.
Élodie Jacquier-Laforge, vice president of MoDem of the National Assembly, is offended: “What exactly are you talking about? Have you made two weapons of honor in the Assembly?”. The session is suspended.
Discussions resume. Éric Dupond-Moretti insists, stating that his “words” “did not tend to point to” Olivier Marleix, “but the contempt he felt for [sa] presumption of innocence”. Several deputies, both left and right, demanded an apology and sometimes even resignation. New suspension of the session.
“What a deterioration of public debate”
During the recovery, Éric Dupond-Moretti says he is “deeply affected”, repeats that he did not “want to target” Olivier Marleix, but relents, however, using the conditional:
“If my gesture has been misinterpreted, I apologize to him, as well as to the entire national representation.”
“But anyway, what a deterioration of the public debate, what a deplorable image for the whole of the political class,” considers Matthieu Croissandeau. Above all, “what a turn of karma for the presidential field.”
First stumbling block: the government and the majority have spent weeks criticizing the rebels for their attitude, Gérald Darmanin believing, for example, that they seek to “disorder the country.” Here they are now caught in the same trap they were setting for the left.
“Failed all along the line”
In addition, as if that were not enough, the bill defended by Aurore Bergé “showed flaws in the presidential field,” says Matthieu Croissandeau. Thus, only 4 MoDem deputies voted in favor of the bill, while 20 spoke out against it. Among the Horizontes deputies, 5 rejected the text and one elected abstained. With Upon arrival, a total of 113 votes in favor of the text and 140 against.
This vote is not isolated. Last week, the opposite scenario happened. During the parliamentary niche of Horizontes, the Renaissance deputies refused to vote in favor of one of their bills, consisting of punishing recidivism more severely. Members of Édouard Philippe’s party then denounced “twisted blows”.
Last element to color: the target of the arms of honour, Olivier Marleix. The latter is “the head of the LR deputies whom the government has been courting for two months to approve its pension reform and whom it will need in 15 days to vote for it in the National Assembly,” says Matthieu Croissandeau.
Our editorialist’s conclusion: “It’s a flop all along the line.”
Source: BFM TV
