The group of Edouard Philippe denounced the “twisted blows” of the presidential party against his bill, supported by the national rally, aimed at establishing minimum penalties against recurrences.
by Mariama Darame and Jérémie Lamothe
underlying since the start of the legislature, the fracture lines within the presidential coalition broke out in broad daylight, Thursday, March 2, in the National Assembly. In an almost deserted hemicycle for the parliamentary niche of the Horizons group -where its texts are on the agenda until midnight -the deputies Laurent Marcangeli (Corse -du -Sud) and the members of the presidential party, Renaissance, are torn all morning around a bill which aimed to “better fight against recurrence”. A text supported by the right and the extreme right.
The rejection of article 1 er of this bill establishing a minimum sentence of one year imprisonment for the authors “of crimes of violence, committed in recurrence, against agents public “forced the rapporteur Naïma Moutchou (Val-d’Oise, Horizons) to remove her text thus emptied from her main measure. She had received the opposition of elected Renaissance, from the left and part of the modem with 98 votes against 87. The vice-president horizons of the Assembly castigated a “mess” and “twisted blows” of the Elected Renaissance and the Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti, accused on several occasions of obstruction, after having multiplied the long speeches.
A few moments before the ballot on article 1 er , elected officials opposed to the text rushed in the hemicycle. The Economic Affairs Committee, which at the same time studied the bill for accelerating nuclear, had then suspended its work. “I was ready for the fight of ideas, argument against argument, conviction against conviction. I was less ready for twisted blows – I must tell you, friends -, maneuvers, procedural kicks … We were expected on This subject, but some of you wanted to make it a personal deal, “said Naïma Moutchou. Faced with this “absence of political maturity” denounced by the president of the group, Laurent Marcangeli, the elected horizons of Seine-et-Marne, Frédéric Valletoux, goes further: “There will be a before and an after.”
a “caricatured” text
In elected macronists, no mea culpa. By establishing a minimum sentence, the bill carried out by M me Moutchou restored, according to them, the “floors” device set up, in 2008, by Nicolas Sakozy, before being repealed , in 2014, under François Hollande. “The floors have not made it possible to repress delinquency or to fight against recurrence,” said the Keeper of the Seals. “We have always obstructed such a measure,” continued the rebirth president of the Law Commission, Sacha Houlié, calling the presidential camp to “pragmatism” and “coherence”.
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