The speech of the LFI deputy, returned to the hemicycle in mid-January after being convicted of domestic violence, aroused, Tuesday evening, hoots and tumult. A session suspension was decided in full debate on pension reform.
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The intervention of deputy Adrien Quatennens, the first since his return to the National Assembly in mid-January, provoked, Tuesday, February 7, a brief tumult in the hemicycle. Shortly after 10:30 p.m., the announcement of the imminent intervention of the deputy, suspended from the group of rebellious France (LFI) deputies after its conviction for domestic violence, aroused huée and cluster of designer in the ranks of the majority, during debates on pension reform.
“It’s a shame”, launched the leader of Renaissance deputies, Aurore Bergé. “What is happening tonight cannot have been overlooked. It is scandalous,” added Macronist deputy Pierre Cazeneuve.
On the left, several deputies have left their place at the announcement of the intervention, notably environmentalists Sandrine Rousseau, Marie-Charlotte Garin, Sophie Taillian-Polian and Sandra Regol, as well as Communist Elsa Faucillon. “We did not ask for spotlights. We just acted in conscience. And in silence,” told the France-Presse agency, Sandra Regol.
Faced with what he described as “sort of tumult”, the vice-president of national gathering (RN), Sébastien Chenu, who presided over the debates, decided to suspend the session.
“Complicated he is coming back” at the moment, judge Marine Tondelier
After two reminders of the rules of deputies Benjamin Sainte-Huile (freedoms, independents, overseas and territories) and Emmanuelle Menard (related RN), Adrien Quatennens was then able to defend his amendment to delete article 1, aiming to the extinction of special diets. The pension reform will “make 100 % losers,” he said.
“It is complicated that he is coming back this evening, this week, right now,” deplored on BFMTV the boss of the Greens, Marine Tondelier, who “avai [t] want to talk about pensions and do [t ] Talking about Adrien Quatennens “. “He can resign, rely on the suffrage and if the voters decide to re-elect him, he returns,” she added.
Adrien Quatennens was sentenced in December to four months suspended prison sentence by the Lille Criminal Court. It was suspended from the LFI deputies group until April.