The “rebellious” deputy was excluded Friday for fifteen days of session after having published a photo where he appears, a tricolor scarf in shoulder strap, the foot on a ball with the effigy of the Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt.
by Mariama Darame and Jérémie Lamothe
The National Assembly has entered an escalation which it does not manage to brake. The fourth day of examination of the pension reform, Friday, February 10, was marked by the exclusion for fifteen days of meeting of the deputy La France Insoumise (LFI) of Seine-Saint-Denis, Thomas Portes.
The Elected Ile -de -France, who is also deprived of half of his parliamentary indemnity for two months, was questioned by his peers for having published a photo on Thursday evening on his Twitter account where he appears, Tricolor scarf in Shrush, foot on a ball with the image of the Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt. Pressed by groups of the presidential coalition, the Republicans (LR) and the National Rally (RN) to withdraw his tweet and to formulate apology, Mr. Portes refused to submit to this request. “Mr. Portes, I believe that the hemicycle asks you excuses,” said the president of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, from the perch.
“I will withdraw my tweet the day you withdraw this reform which will sacrifice thousands of people, that’s reality!” Launched Thomas Portes, causing indignation in an eruptive assembly. Imperturbable, the latter refuses to make a low profile: “I will not go to bed before the bourgeoisie.” Three times, the center and the right of the hemicycle try to interrupt, by clicks of desks and hoots, M. Doors that were about to defend an amendment.
“Symbolically trampled on”
“No proper name deserves to be sali, no face even symbolically deserves to be trampled on the feet,” deplored the Renaissance deputy of Val-de-Marne, Frédéric Descrozaille. His counterpart Eric Woerth (Renaissance, Oise), describes, “call to murder” this cliché. Olivier Dussopt alluded to this photo in session, Friday morning in a stormy exchange with the LFI deputy of Loire-Atlantique, Matthias Tavel: “You want my head as your colleague, you want to continue in violence?”
Under pressure from the relative majority and challenged by Mathilde Panot, the president of the LFI group, Yaël Braun-Pivet finally convenes an office of the National Assembly around 5 p.m. During this conclave, the debates linger on the previous one concerning the freedom of expression of elected officials that a sanction against Mr. Portes could generate within the institution.
Two hours later, the members of the office decide the heaviest sanction, which allows Mr. Portes to be releasing the hemicycle premises to avoid a new bogging up of the debates. This sanction, taken on the basis of article 70 of the assembly regulation which represses the “provocations”, is then approved during an assaulted vote-led by the deputies of the presidential camp, the LR and the RN. The president of the Renaissance group, Aurore Bergé, said that she “asked that there are the highest sanctions (…) so that red lines can be established”. “If there were people who misinterpreted or badly lived [my tweet], I obviously regret it,” reacted Thomas Portes.
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