The debates on the pension reform were stormy in the hemicycle. During these exchanges, behaviors “which degrade the image of the institution” were noted, estimated the office of the National Assembly, its highest authority, which sent this Wednesday a “call to order” to several dozen deputies, mostly Insoumis.
The weakest disciplinary sanction provided for by the regulations, the call to order “will be made individually to the deputies concerned”, specified the presidency of the Assembly in a press release. About eighty deputies will be sanctioned in this way, said a parliamentary source.
These include “deputies who waved signs or opposed the intervention of the ushers” on March 16, “thus causing a tumult”, is it detailed in the press release. That day, in a deafening uproar, the deputies of Nupes had brandished signs “64 years old, it’s no” in the hemicycle, singing the Marseillaise, disrupting the speech of Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne who came to trigger the 49.3.
“New act of authoritarianism”, denounces LFI
Calls to order also target the deputies who had communicated on social networks during the closed-door debates of the joint joint committee (CMP) between deputies and senators, on March 15, on the reform. Here again, these are deputies from the Nupes.
In addition, several deputies are called to order for having “broken the rules of communication with the outside from the hemicycle”, during a report broadcast on France 2, for which they had worn lavalier microphones. The LR deputy Aurélien Pradié and the socialist Arthur Delaporte are particularly concerned, according to a parliamentary source.
The Bureau, in which representatives of the various political groups participate, took its decision by “consensus, apart from LFI”, indicated a participant. The highest body of the Assembly “wishes to solemnly mark its disapproval of such actions which degrade the image of the institution and affect through it that of democracy”, is it indicated in the press release from the presidency. In addition to individual calls to order, all MEPs will receive a letter “reminding all the rules intended to frame and guide” their behavior.
The group of LFI deputies denounced the sanctions, described as “a new act of authoritarianism by a bunkered political power, unable to understand that popular and parliamentary protest on the subject will not stop without withdrawal of the reform”.