Business against business. Eric Dupond-Moretti and Alexis Kohler on one side; Adrien Quatennens and Julien Bayou on the other. In an atmosphere at loggerheads, the presidential coalition and the New People’s Ecologist and Social Union (Nupes) have not ceased to send each other the media and legal scandals affecting their camps, during the first session of questions to the government of the parliamentary session, Tuesday, October 4, at the National Assembly.
The leader of the Renaissance deputies, Aurore Bergé, was the first to open hostilities. Through his question about “violence against women”the elected representative of Yvelines denounced “men who hit their wives” and called on them to “go and file a complaint” as soon as they receive ” a slap “, targeting without naming the deputy La France insoumise (LFI) from the North, Adrien Quatennens, targeted by an investigation for domestic violence against his wife. Mme Bergé then attacked the staff of the “rebellious”, accusing them of having minimized the facts and of having defended Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s protege. “For several weeks, we have praised the virtue of those who recognize acts of domestic violence, we hear those who speak of their affection for a man who hits his wife”, she launched, acclaimed by the whole of the Hemicycle, from the presidential coalition to the extreme right, with the notable exception of the elected representatives of Nupes.
Exasperated, the LFI deputies and some of the elected environmentalists apostrophized the president of the Renaissance group. “It’s a shame what you are doing!” », exclaimed the leader of the “rebellious” deputies, Mathilde Panot. A few rows below, the Green MP for Paris, Sandrine Rousseau, stood up, forming a triangle with her hands, a symbol worn by certain feminist movements. “Damien Abad, where is he? », then escapes from the ranks of the Nupes, in reference to the deputy Renaissance under investigation for attempted rape.
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“A fundamental fight”
In response, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne tried to defend the government’s record on combating violence against women, “great cause of the quinquennium”. “Only the judicial institution can determine the facts, state the law and sanction. The fight against domestic violence is a fundamental fight.supported the tenant of Matignon, under the invectives of the “rebellious”. In front of this uninterrupted bronca, the President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivetinterrupted the head of government from the perch to call to order the LFI deputy for Paris Danièle Obono. “Please stop shouting at speakers whoever they are! »she asked him, in a dry tone.
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