After the songs of “welcome” to Elisabeth Borne before 49.3, the sanction. The office of the National Assembly decided this Wednesday morning to impose a call to order on the deputies who had intoned the Marseillaise and brandished signs that indicated “64 years, it is not”, according to information from the figaro confirmed by BFMTV.com.
“A tumultuous scene”
The reason given by the office that voted unanimously in favor of this sanction -with the exception of La France Insoumise that voted against and the ecologists and socialists who were not present- refers to article 70 of the regulations of the National Assembly.
“We sanctioned on the occasion of a tumultuous scene,” explains the vice president of the National Assembly Élodie Jacquier-Laforge.
The arrival of Elisabeth Borne to announce the adoption of the pension reform without a vote was particularly stormy on March 15, forcing Yaël Braun-Pivet, president of the National Assembly, to suspend the session.
Deputies also sanctioned for carrying a microphone
The names of the sanctioned deputies will be published in the coming days, after the analysis of the images of the session by the services of the National Assembly. Among these, we must count the vast majority of LFI deputies, but also communist, environmentalist and socialist deputies who sang the Marseillaise without brandishing a sign.
The rebels denounced in a press release “a new act of authoritarianism on the part of an armored political power, incapable of understanding that the popular and parliamentary protest on the issue will not cease without the withdrawal of the reform.”
The National Assembly office will also penalize deputies who entered the chamber with a miniature microphone for a France 2 report on pension reform. Among them are in particular the deputies Aurélien Pradié (LR), Arthur Delaporte (PS) and Marie-Charlotte Garin (EELV).
The call to order, however, has everything of a simple symbol and corresponds only to the lightest possible sanction. In recent months, Thomas Portes (LFI) who had set foot on a soccer ball with the image of Olivier Dussopt and Grégoire de Fournas (RN) who had launched “let him go back to Africa” during a question about the destination from a migrant ship received the maximum sentence.
The two deputies saw their parliamentary allowance reduced by half for two months -an amputation of 3,746 euros per month out of a total of 7,493 euros- and the prohibition to appear within the walls of the Assembly for 15 days sitting.
Source: BFM TV
