LFI deputy Sébastien Delogu excluded from the National Assembly for 15 days after brandishing a Palestinian flag in the hemicycle

This is the highest sanction permitted by the internal regulations of the National Assembly. La France Insoumise (LFI) MP Sébastien Delogu received a fifteen-day exclusion from the Bourbon Palace, after brandishing a Palestinian flag in the hemicycle on Tuesday May 28. “He was guilty of provocation against the National Assembly,” said the President of the Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet. After a sit/stand vote, she confirmed the sanction, which provides for the withdrawal of half of the parliamentary allowance for two months and her temporary exclusion for 15 days.

During the question session to the government, LFI MP Alma Dufour questioned the executive on the situation in Gaza and its refusal “to lecture Israel”. As the Minister of Foreign Trade began to respond to the elected official, Sébastien Delogu stood up and waved a flag in the colors of Palestine to the applause of his group.

“By waving a Palestinian flag, will the president finally wake up and say to himself that we must stop selling weapons?“, reacted Sébastien Delogu following the suspension of the session. “I don’t care at all about the sanction that the National Assembly will give me”he added.