“Often lamentable spectacle”, “worrying degradation” debates… In a letter addressed to all the deputies, Friday April 7, the president of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, castigates “serious dysfunctions” in the behavior of Members and asks them to respect the rules of the Hemicycle.
“The first months of the 16e legislature have obviously been marked by serious individual or collective dysfunctions in the functioning of our working bodies and by a worrying deterioration in the serenity and quality of our exchanges”considers the holder of the perch, from the Renaissance group.
The “sad record” penalties for “unacceptable or inappropriate behavior” must “challenging us all”as well as “invective” and the “hectic sessions”she adds.
Prohibitions on holding signs or making telephone calls
The President of the Assembly recalls a series of rules, such as the ban on brandishing “banners” in the hemicycle, while several dozen left-wing deputies, mostly “rebellious”, were called to order on Wednesday by the office of the Assembly for having brandished signs “64 years old is no” singing The Marseillaise March 16, the day of the triggering of 49.3 to have the pension reform adopted.
Yaël Braun-Pivet also emphasizes the “prescription prohibiting telephone calls inside the hemicycle” or employ “any communication tool with the outside”in an allusion to « lives » of the deputy Ugo Bernalicis (La France insoumise, LFI) on the social network Twitch, or to the tie microphones worn in session by deputies from different sides, including the elected Aurélien Pradié (Les Républicains), for the purposes of a report from France 2.
The President of the Assembly also announced that she had entrusted a mission to Vice-President Naïma Moutchou, also responsible for the communication and press delegation, in order to “to take stock” on “filming authorizations and rules for taking images and sound” in the Assembly, but also “on the use made by MPs of various communication tools”.
“We are not kids to be punished”, castigates the left
Among the questions, how to preserve the use of closed doors for joint joint committees (CMP), these bodies where deputies and senators meet to try to find a compromise on a proposal or a bill. During the CMP on pensions, elected officials from Nupes claimed to advertise the debates on social networks, for more transparency, provoking the ire of elected officials from other camps.
This recent call to order inflicted on dozens of deputies has sparked a series of protests on the left. “We are not kids to be punished, but deputies who oppose us to your pension reform. No call to order will silence or scare us”castigated the ecologist Sandrine Rousseau on Twitterafter receiving one for tweeting at CMP.
The leader of the “rebellious”, Mathilde Panot, for her part announced in a tweet and a post challenge these calls to order issued against the elected representatives of his group before the Council of State, and ” if necessary “before “European Court of Human Rights”.
“These sanctions taken against opposition MPs demonstrate that, far from enforcing the prerogatives of the legislative power, you are no more than an executor of the base works of the executive in its authoritarian turn”she asserts against Mme Braun-Pivet in the same mail.
Other sanctions have been issued against MPs since the start of the new legislature last June. In November, for example, the deputy Grégoire de Fournas (National Rally) had been sanctioned with a fifteen-day exclusion from the hemicycle, after having made racist remarks against the deputy Carlos Martens Bilongo (LFI).