The proposal creates a certain uneasiness, even in the presidential majority. Following the Adrien Quatennens affair, the National Assembly examines this Tuesday a text of the Renaissance group which aims to impose a sentence of ineligibility on the perpetrators of certain violence, in particular marital or intra-family.
Led by Aurore Bergé, the boss of the majority group, the bill will be examined from the end of the afternoon, after a day when eyes will be turned to the mobilization against the pension reform.
Alongside the president of the Law Commission Sacha Houlié, the deputy had presented it on January 11, the same day that Adrien Quatennens made a discreet return to the National Assembly. “This return cannot be ignored, it is not natural”, then noted Aurore Bergé.
The member of the North was sentenced in December to four months in prison suspended for “violence” on his wife. He was suspended for four months from the group of LFI deputies, until April 13, and sits as a non-registered deputy in the meantime.
“Example of the elected”
His first intervention in session, at the beginning of February on pensions, provoked various reactions. Relatives applauded him, while elected officials from Nupes left the hemicycle and deputies from the presidential majority cried “scandal” and “shame”.
“Facts hit you and challenge our fellow citizens”, justifies Aurore Bergé, who wants an “exemplarity of elected officials” and puts “everyone before their responsibilities” in view of the vote on the bill.
It aims to extend the mandatory additional penalty of ineligibility to a series of aggravated acts of violence: those committed on a minor under the age of 15, a vulnerable person, the spouse, with a weapon, or even in the event of racist motivation.
The cases concerned by the text are those where the violence has resulted in total incapacity for work less than or equal to 8 days, or no ITT – the law already provides for a mandatory ineligibility sentence for five or ten years for violence caused an ITT of more than 8 days.
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“The only question asked is: Do or do not the condemned persons deserve to present themselves to the votes of the French? “, answers Aurore Bergé to those who accuse her of wanting an “anti-Quatennens” law.
“We must never give in to the dictatorship of emotion”
She is quite calm about the adoption of the text at first reading on Tuesday evening, despite an outcry last week in committee against the principle of “a news item = a law”. “But it will be hard to assume to vote against” the Bergé proposal, we slip within the Renaissance group.
Allies Horizons and Modem shared their “greatest reservations”. It is “a communication coup”, points out Ian Boucard (LR), who rather judges that Adrien Quatennens “must be beaten at the ballot box”. “We must never give in to the dictatorship of emotion,” said Pascale Bordes (RN).
The left-wing deputies also expressed their reluctance in committee and Danièle Obono (LFI) was the most virulent in pointing out “a crude and dangerous instrumentalization of justice and the fight against violence against women for basely political purposes”.
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Aurore Berger recalled that the bill, if adopted by Parliament, will not be retroactive and will not apply to Adrien Quatennens, a close friend of Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
A handful of amendments will be discussed on Tuesday, mostly coming from environmentalists. They relay in particular a request from a feminist association, the Observatory of sexist and sexual violence in politics, to extend the mandatory penalty of ineligibility to psychological violence.