The Insoumis recently mentioned a “reflection” on a possible return to the Palais Bourbon by Adrien Quatennens, who retired in mid-September after acknowledging violence against his wife, including a slap. He was on sick leave until recently. “The question (of the return) is not posed to me, it is posed and to LFI and Adrien Quatennens”, reacted this Sunday the deputy EELV Sandrine Rousseau with France Inter, France Télévisions and Le Monde. But “it is up to him to prove to women, especially battered women, that his return to politics could serve this fight” and what “he is ready to do”.
“I tell him, it’s impossible to come back now on the eve of a demonstration against violence as if nothing had happened,” she said, mentioning the demonstration against sexist and sexual violence organized Saturday, November 19 by the collective #NousToutes. “A slap is never harmless, it’s a crime” and “justice must pass”, insisted Sandrine Rousseau.
“Now, there is the question not yet addressed within the framework of MeToo which is that of return and rehabilitation”, noted the deputy for Paris. “There are 200,000 battered women, what can you do for them? launched the ecologist to Adrien Quatennens.
“Nothing prevents him from coming back to sit”
Asked about BFMTV, government spokesman Olivier Véran said he was “very uncomfortable” about a possible return, even if Adrien Quatennens “is not ineligible today”. “In his private life he has clearly been guilty of a serious offense (…) The behavior of a deputy in his private life must be all the more exemplary as he is called upon to represent the others”, estimated Veran. Is Adrien Quatennens disqualified as a political actor? “Yes,” replied the minister.
Guest of Radio J, the president of the Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet (Renaissance) estimated about Quatennens that “today nothing prevents him from returning to sit on the benches of the National Assembly”, in l lack of conviction. “I appeal to everyone’s respect. »
On Public Senate, the Insoumis Alexis Corbière had indicated Thursday that there is “nothing established” but that “the president of the group” Mathilde Panot “indicated that a reflection was engaged” on a possible return of Adrien Quatennens in the Assembly.