LFI deputy Ugo Bernalicis receives a heavier financial sanction

The elected official is deprived of half of his parliamentary allowance for one month.

An MP deprived of half his parliamentary allowance for a month. La France insoumise elected official Ugo Bernalicis received an increased financial penalty on Wednesday, December 13, at the National Assembly, for having caused a scandal at the end of November in the law committee. The office of the Assembly, its highest collegial body, decided on this sanction, a “simple censorship” which was formally approved in the hemicycle in the afternoon.

While waiting for this office meeting, the President of the Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet had already spoken on December 1 “a call to order with entry in the minutes with the deprivation for one month of a quarter of his parliamentary allowance, i.e. 1,476.84 euros”. The office doubled the financial sanction without going so far as to exclude the MP for 15 days.

Cacophony in the committee

On November 30, standing and thundering, the deputy from the North called for an interruption of the debates to allow the elected representatives of the Law Committee, busy with the immigration bill, to go to the hemicycle. The reason ? An LFI text, registered under their reserved day, and which had previously passed before the Law Commission, was currently being examined.

The Renaissance president of the commission Sacha Houlié replied that a suspension would come later. “What is this?”, “intolerable” had stormed Ugo Bernalicis, who had also requested sanctions against Sacha Houlié. The scene had plunged the commission into a rare cacophony, between noisy and invective questions from deputies, some on the left not hiding their embarrassment a posteriori.