2023-12-03 16:36:39
This is a little advice, from one colleague to another. Asked about the stubborn habit of Élisabeth Borne who regularly uses her electronic cigarette in the hemicycle of the National Assembly, the Minister of Health, Aurélien Rousseau, was understanding but still advised the Prime Minister not to do it anymore.
During the week, MP Caroline Fiat criticized the Matignon tenant for vaping while she presented the new LFI motion of censure against the government. “Here, we write the law, (…) we are not above the law. (…) Vaping in this chamber while I am talking to you is total contempt,” she said.
VIDEO. An LFI deputy lectures Élisabeth Borne who vapes in the National Assembly
In the National Assembly as well as on various public occasions, the Prime Minister regularly uses her electronic cigarette, which has already earned her criticism from opposition deputies. But in this specific case, the Minister of Health tried to defend Élisabeth Borne.
Stop showing “smoke or cigarettes”
“When we are in a motion of censure, when none of the deputies – or almost none – who tabled the motion of censure took the trouble to come, when we have a speaker who is extremely aggressive with the Prime Minister , both I would advise him not to do it anymore (vaping), and at the same time I understand that it is a rather unpleasant moment to go through,” declared Aurélien Rousseau, on the set of the show “ Dimanche en politique » on France 3.
“Vaping in the Assembly, moreover, is not authorized, I believe, according to the regulations of the National Assembly,” added the minister, who was Élisabeth Borne's chief of staff for a year. in Matignon. “But I also invite everyone to see the violence of the comments that can be made at these times of motions of censure,” he insisted.
“I actually think that we need to get out of the habit of constantly showing smoke or cigarettes. Afterwards, we are in a very different subject: for example here, we have a former smoker (the Prime Minister) who, to wean herself off, uses vaping. My fight, particularly with young people, is that those who offer them colored puffs, with tastes, etc., do not make them turn to cigarettes,” he explained.
The National Assembly will debate Monday evening a bill banning single-use electronic vaping devices (“puffs”), after a unanimous vote by deputies in committee. “I don’t put things exactly on the same level, even if obviously I remind the Prime Minister of good advice,” concluded Aurélien Rousseau.
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