In National Assembly, sanction taken against deputy RN Grégoire de Fournas weakens strategy

The elected official of Gironde now has a ban on appearing at the Palais-Bourbon for fifteen days of session after his racist remarks made Thursday during the question session in government.

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Silence is unusual but marks the gravity of the moment. In the same movement, all deputies get up, with the exception of elected officials from the National Rally (RN). By this “seated” vote Friday, November 4, the National Assembly has just endowed an overwhelming majority of the decision of its office, which advocated the temporary exclusion of the elected RN of Gironde, Grégoire de Fournas.

The sanction is immediate for the far-right deputy, forced to leave the Palais-Bourbon enclosure with the prohibition to appear there for fifteen days of session. He is also deprived of half of his parliamentary compensation for two months. This “temporary censorship” is the heaviest sanction provided for by the regulation of the National Assembly for a deputy accused “of demonstrations disturbing the order or which causes a tumultuous scene”. Since the establishment of the V e Republic, only the deputy related to the Communist Party, Maxime Gremetz, had received such a sanction, in 2011.

“The free democratic debate cannot allow everything. Certainly not the invective, the insult. Certainly not racism,” said the president of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet since the perch in a solemn speech . On his Twitter account, Grégoire de Fourna said he once again “totally innocent of the facts” which are accused of. “I feel this sanction of incredible hardness with great injustice. But respectful of the institution, I submit to it,” he said.

The far -right deputy is implicated for launching Thursday, November 3, during the question session of the government, the expression “which he returns to Africa!”, According to the report of the session , at a time when the “rebellious” deputy of Val-d’Oise, Carlos Martens Bilongo, mentioned the situation of the boat of the NGO SOS Mediterranean carrying 234 migrants rescued off Libya. A racist outing which caused the indignation of the deputies present and led to the interruption of the session – for the seventh time since 1958.

a “will not to let pass”

The elected officials of the new social and ecological popular union (Nuts) immediately accused the elected official of the far right of having targeted the elected black Carlos Martens Bilongo. The RN rejected these accusations of racism as a whole, saying that his deputy evoked “the boat”. Faced with the excitement, Yaël Braun-Pivet summoned in an emergency, “given the gravity of the facts”, a meeting of the office of the National Assembly Friday at 2:30 pm only this body which brings together the president, Vice-presidents, quaestors, secretaries, and at their request the group’s presidents, can decide an exclusion from the deputy claimed by the presidential camp and the clip.

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