2023-07-11 17:20:02
The three groups of the presidential majority in the National Assembly on Tuesday called on the president of the institution to sanction the left-wing deputies who participated in the banned rally in memory of Adama Traoré.
About 2,000 people, including a dozen LFI and EELV deputies, marched in Paris on Saturday in memory of Adama Traoré, who died seven years ago shortly after his arrest by the gendarmes. The rally had been banned by the police headquarters, which cited fears of public disorder after recent urban violence.
“Article 70 paragraph 2 of our rules, however, provides that any member of the Assembly engaging in demonstrations disturbing order may be subject to disciplinary penalties”, wrote Tuesday the three presidents of the groups of the presidential camp – Aurore Bergé (Renaissance), Jean-Paul Mattei (MoDem) and Laurent Marcangeli (Horizons) – in a letter addressed to the Renaissance president of the Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet.
In a letter addressed to @YaelBRAUNPIVETthe three group presidents of the majority demand a meeting of the office of the Assembly to sanction the deputies who participated in the demonstration prohibited on Saturday for Adama Traoré. pic.twitter.com/pO0WH5Psnc
— Margaux Duguet (@MargauxDuguet) July 11, 2023
“More serious, these deputies wore their tricolor scarf on this occasion and maintained their presence at a demonstration with the slogan Everyone hates the police”, continue the three group leaders, quoting deputies by name, like the president of the LFI group Mathilde Panot, the LFI president of the Finance Commission Éric Coquerel and the ecologist Sandrine Rousseau. They ask for a referral to the Bureau of the institution to decide on possible sanctions.
“The race to punish opposition MPs is extremely worrying. No rule in our rules provides for sanctioning participation in a demonstration. This illiberal turn must stop, ”denounced socialist deputy Arthur Delaporte on Twitter. “By dint of banning everything that bothers you, you are stifling democracy,” added ecologist Sophie Taillé-Polian, also on Twitter.
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“We are still awaiting their request for sanctions for senators LR Retailleau and Eustache-Brinio who speak of ethnic regression and of French people who are not really French”, and “for deputy RN Tanguy who speaks of facial nationality. But no, they are the Republican arc, ”laughed LFI MP Sarah Legrain, on Twitter.
Last November, 36 deputies of the majority (Renaissance and MoDem) had already called in vain for “sanctions” from the National Assembly against deputies participating in prohibited demonstrations, targeting in particular environmentalists who had participated in a demonstration in Sainte -Soline against a water reservoir project.
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