MP Raquel Garrido withdrawn from the LFI group in the Assembly

The deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis Raquel Garrido was sanctioned by the office of the LFI group in the National Assembly after her comments on the functioning of the party and on Jean-Luc Mélenchon, France Insoumise announced Tuesday, November 7 in a press release press release obtained by franceinfo.

Summoned on Monday, the elected official was heard for 1h30. “At the end of this hearing, the office decided that Raquel Garrido could no longer be a speaker on behalf of the group in parliamentary work for a period of four months”, explains the LFI group office to the Assembly. This means that she no longer has the right to speak for the group during Questions to the Government sessions, for example.

Sanctioned for “remarks” that harm LFI

The office of the parliamentary group La France Insoumise criticizes him “not to defend one’s ideas, but an accumulation of repeated actions and comments which harm the proper collective functioning of the group or its members”. It evokes “the dissemination of false information in the press about the group or its members”, “the ad hominem accusation and denigration of several members of the group” as well as “the attack on employees of the parliamentary group”. The press release does not cite the precise sequences in question.

The LFI MP for Seine-Saint-Denis had been very critical of Jean-Luc Mélenchon in recent months in the press. In particular, she considered that he had not “only harms” At the move. She also estimated on October 22 on franceinfo that “Jean-Luc Mélenchon has sought from afar to put wedges between us and the trade union organizations and between us and the other Nupes parties.”

“Humiliation, anger, shame”

On X (ex-Twitter), Raquel Garrido reacted to this sanction, saying “humiliated” and in “anger” After “the verdict of the rebellious Criminal Court”. She states that the duration of her sanction is the same as that of“Adrien Quatennens” after his conviction for acts of violence against his ex-wife. “I am ostracized (…) because I stood firm on the principle of non-cumulative mandates (…), because I dared to denounce the masculinist communication of Adrien Quatennens orchestrated by Sophia Chikirou and supported by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, because I defended the unity of Nupes, the trade union movement, and LFI during the great pension movement while the LFI leadership was only splitting, splitting and splitting again.she assures.

The member for Seine-Saint-Denis denounces “unfounded and false accusations”. Raquel Garrido accuses the office of the LFI group in the Assembly of having “self-proclaimed disciplinary body to try – how immaturity – to resolve political disagreements through coercive measures”. “I am ashamed to see this evolution of the political project to which I have devoted 30 years of my life,” she adds.