2023-11-07 14:45:24
Raquel Garrido did not know what fate would be reserved for her. The response came Monday evening: the management of the LFI parliamentary group sanctioned her with a withdrawal from LFI’s parliamentary work for four months, after hearing the member for Seine-Saint-Denis, as revealed by the Parisian. Concretely, she can no longer be a “speaker” for the group during parliamentary debates, and is no longer authorized, during this period, to ask questions to the government on behalf of the group or to defend motions.
In a press release, the group’s office specified that Raquel Garrido was guilty of “an accumulation of repeated actions and comments which harm the good collective functioning of the parliamentary group”. The management of the LFI group accuses this early rebel of having disseminated “false information in the press about the group or its members”, of having “questioned and denigrated [de façon] ad hominem” several of his colleagues and for having “taken on employees of the parliamentary group”, in particular by “insults” against the collaborators of a deputy, confided an Insoumis leader a few days ago.
The person concerned mocks a “rebellious criminal court”
A sanction experienced as a “humiliation” by the main party concerned, who targeted the management of LFI in a long message in the middle of the night, mocking a “Rebellious Criminal Court”. “I dared to denounce the masculinist communication of Adrien Quatennens orchestrated by Sophia Chikirou and supported by Jean-Luc Mélenchon”, “I defended the unity of Nupes, the trade union movement, and LFI during the great movement of pensions while the leadership of La France insoumise was only splitting,” she underlined.
Verdict of the ICC (the rebellious Criminal Court): 4 months.
Does 4 months mean anything to you? It’s like Adrien Quatennens.. For 4 months I no longer have the right to represent my parliamentary group as a speaker in the general discussions in the Laws and…— Raquel Garrido (@RaquelGarridoFr) November 7, 2023
“I am angry, I am ashamed to see this evolution of the political project to which I have devoted thirty years of my life,” she ends. For many months, tension had been rising between Raquel Garrido and Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s inner circle. This increased criticism of the internal democracy of the movement and spats with Mélenchon. The tribune expressed on several occasions the desire for her to “leave” LFI. Just like his loved ones. “I want her to clear out,” said an Insoumis executive to Le Parisien a few weeks ago.
“The party does not strengthen itself by purifying itself”
This decision aroused the emotion of some of the LFI deputies, often described as “rebellious” to the line of “conflictuality” carried by Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Clémentine Autain, another dissident figure from LFI, said she was “appalled” by this sanction Tuesday morning on France Inter. Diverting a famous revolutionary maxim, she says: “The party does not strengthen itself by purifying itself. The logic which underlies all of this is the idea that the clan would go before the movement”, in reference to Jean-Luc Mélenchon and his relatives.
And to quote the deputy Danièle Obono “who was able to make comments about Hamas which are not in correspondence with the position of the group” or the polemical declarations reported by Sophia Chikirou: these “deserved, it seems to me , at least to be heard so that they can explain themselves to us. All this has not been done. »
Paris MP Danielle Simonnet, another history of Mélenchonism, denounced a “shameful” sanction. “A disciplinary sanction to resolve political disagreements? And the same as against someone who was convicted of domestic violence? », she choked, aiming at Adrien Quatennens. “Insoumis.es do not accept this! “, she said to the activists.
Criticisms relayed in Nupes
These elected officials were then joined in the morning by Alexis Corbière, LFI deputy and ex-lieutenant of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, also on bad terms with the Insoumis. “Within a movement that wants to bring together a popular majority, we do not resolve strategic and political disagreements through unfounded administrative sanctions” he criticized, showing his “solidarity” with his partner.
In a long message, MP François Ruffin, also in strategic disagreement with the management of LFI, was outraged by such a procedure, considered opaque. “Why four months and not two, or six, against Raquel Garrido? What obscure paragraph of what unknown regulation decides this? If we cannot debate together, could the leadership of my parliamentary group provide us with the price list in the event of political divergence? “, he asked. And to note, wearily: “Raquel Garrido disagrees on the absence of democracy in rebellious France. And how does our movement, which advocates the Sixth Republic, respond to it? Not by a debate, but by a sanction. »
Criticisms relayed and supported within what remains of Nupes. Four months ? “Like a perpetrator of domestic violence? !! Shame is not on your side Raquel Garrido,” wrote communist deputy Elsa Faucillon. ” 4 months. The symbol is terrible… And yet I’m not talking about the rest! Support Raquel. Many, and not only among the rebellious, know your commitment,” also supported Marine Tondelier, the boss of EELV. The shock wave has not finished spreading.
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