Yaël Braun-Pivet does not want to “exercise the dress police” in the Assembly
The President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, (Renaissance, ex-La République en Marche) recalled this morning, in the program “Les 4 Vérités” on France 2that deputies had to wear uniforms « correct ». “We can’t come dressed as we want [à l’Assemblée], the regulations of the National Assembly provide for street attire. »
“You no longer belong to yourself when you return to the National Assembly and in the hemicycle, you are an elected representative of the nation, you represent the French. So you must always imagine that the French must be proud of you”she argued. “I am not here to exercise the dress police in the Assembly, I trust the parliamentarians”however, specified the President of the Assembly, despite the debate of the moment on the wearing of a tie.
« [Les députés] exercise an eminent function and therefore they must be able themselves to judge whether the outfit they are wearing is this famous city outfit, if it is a correct outfit, if it is a worthy outfit to exercise this mandate “she pointed out.
The lively debate in the Assembly has turned, in recent days, into a clothing Time.news after Renaud Muselier, the president of the South – Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region, criticized, Thursday, July 21, the behavior deputies of the New People’s Ecological and Social Union in the Assembly, a “dirty left, scruffy, screaming everywhere”, according to him. In the process, the deputy and quaestor Les Républicains, Eric Ciotti, demanded “the obligation to wear a tie” in the hemicycle.
“The clothes do not make the deputy”replied on Friday, the group of deputies La France insoumise and the “insubordinate” deputy Louis Boyard, for his part, demanded “the ban on costumes at indecent prices”regretting that some Members “allow themselves to wear more and more expensive outfits in the hemicycle”.
Sunday, even Jean-Luc Mélenchon, traveling to Bogota, went there with his comment in a post published on his blog. “Good gentlemen and good ladies denounce our behavior, want to teach us good manners and good clothes. Yet they do not know this: these outfits they castigate are our Sunday clothes. But many of those who watch know how much it is because they are dressed in the same on this day”he wrote.