On franceinfo, the president of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet returned to the two arms of honor addressed in session by the Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti to the leader of the deputies Les Républicains. She calls for a return to calm within the hemicycle.
At the Assembly, “everyone needs to calm down”, demands its president, Yaël Braun-Pivet, this Wednesday on franceinfo. She reacts to the two arms of honor made the day before by the Minister of Justice, Éric Dupond-Moretti, while the leader of the deputies Les Républicains (LR), Olivier Marleix, was speaking. Just before, the latter had recalled the legal troubles of the Keeper of the Seals.
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At that time, Yaël Braun-Pivet was not chairing the meeting. In the minutes that followed, she spoke with the minister. “I told him that if the facts we were talking about were proven, it was something serious, that he had to apologize to the institution, to parliamentarians as a whole and to the president of session”she says. “If this gesture was addressed to a parliamentarian, he also had to apologize to this parliamentarian”she adds.
Conspired by the opposition, the Minister of Justice has indeed recognized and “regret” his gestures. They were not according to him “not addressed to MP Marleix” but upon reaching “to the presumption of innocence”. After this incident, Yaël Braun-Pivet “also discussed with the Prime Minister”Elisabeth Borne. “Indeed, I expect the government to be respectful of the institution that I chair”she says.
call for calm
As for Olivier Marleix, she has “exchanged on the phone and by SMS” with him. The president of the LR group in the Assembly, who wrote to him to request access “to the images of this moment captured by the cameras”wins the case. “He can go see them if he wishes”she says, “and we will see what needs to be done”. “It’s not in my power” to sanction the minister, she specifies however.
“The tension that exists today in society, it will normally be found in the National Assembly”explains the deputy of Yvelines, while the examination in the lower house of the pension reform was to say the least tumultuous. “Sometimes we have verbal outbursts” Or “with unspeakable gestures” from the deputies. “These overflows can also intervene on the part of the government”she laments.
For her, it’s time to pull herself together. In the hemicycle, “we need to manage to have debates that are respectful of everyone”, she demands. It’s the best way “to be respectful above all of the French people who elected us, or else, when you are a minister of the Republic, of the French people you govern”.