A “correct dress required”, rather than T-shirts, sweatshirts, sneakers… The recently elected deputies brought their style of dress into the Hemicycle, a style which is not to the taste of the Republicans. “You see people from the Nupes completely scruffylaments Fabien Di Filippo, LR deputy for Moselle. It does not reflect a good image of the Assembly, we represent our fellow citizens, we are not only there for us.
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On the same wavelength, the Rassemblement National group, in which men systematically wear ties. It is an instruction from their leader, Marine Le Pen, and there is nothing more natural, assures the deputy of Var Laure Lavalette. It’s even a question of“education” : “We should make sure that when we arrive at the National Assembly, we are dressed properlyshe believes. I would love for the men to wear ties and the women to have their arms covered.”
Until 2018, the question of clothing at the Assembly was customary and for men, the compulsory tie has long been the custom. But no trace even unwritten on the “bare arms” women. In 2018, the office of the National Assembly specified in writing in a general instruction (article 9) that “the clothing adopted by the deputies in the hemicycle must remain neutral and be similar to a city outfit”. The office will therefore decide, Wednesday, November 9, to define what a “city clothes” and determine whether or not it includes wearing a jacket and tie.
On the left, in the ranks of the Nupes, we are annoyed that the subject takes on such proportions. The regulations only require a “city clothes”recalls the ecologist Cyrielle Chatelain.
“When you can wear a tie and make racist remarks in the National Assembly, I think that clothes are not a priority issue. The priority is the quality of our debates.”
Cyrielle Chatelain, ecologist deputy for Isèreat franceinfo
The office of the Assembly must also rule on disciplinary problems in session: the rebellious Daniele Obono, and the RN Alexandre Loubet will plead their cause. The latter had qualified Bruno Le Mayor of “cowardly”he refuses to be sanctioned for what he says is a political commentary