The sequence is full of mischief, but is no less serious. This Tuesday, the deputies elected Yaël Braun-Pivet president of the National Assembly. The two youngest representatives of the nation acted as assessors. It was without counting on “a barrier gesture”, more political than health.
Planted like stakes on the desk in front of the ballot box, they lend themselves to the game and greet the voters one by one, it is the tradition. A rite that Louis Boyard, 21, LFI deputy hastened to break, refusing to shake hands with his RN counterpart Philippe Ballard. A mistake ? Not really.
In the corridors of the National Assembly, the young Insoumis explains: “We are facing a pandemic, we must take precautions… A pandemic of racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia! In the interest of everyone’s health, I call on the French, and particularly the President of the Republic, not to shake hands with the National Rally.
A political position, which had not been specified yesterday, giving rise to multiple interpretations, especially since the young man still shook the wrist of certain members of the National Rally.
“Louis Boyard when I held out my hand to him a few seconds before or after at the same place to vote just said to me ‘with the Covid, I don’t shake hands’. End of story, calm down haters, ”the socialist posted on Twitter. Jerome GuedjMember of Parliament for Essonne.
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The young man decided this Wednesday, taking advantage of the attention around his gesture: And to add, with conviction: “Where are the men and women of state like Jacques Chirac and Simone Weil who said they never deal with racism and anti-Semitism. Where are the journalists who had distance and measure from the breakthrough of the far right. I stay true to my principles. Faced with the National Rally, I respect the barrier gestures ”.