“I find it normal that he was sanctioned,” reacts Nicolas Dupont-Aignan after the exclusion from the National Assembly for 15 days of an LFI deputy, who brandished a Palestinian flag in the hemicycle on Tuesday.
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“The importation of this terrible conflict, of this tragedy onto French soil would be a catastrophe”estimates Tuesday May 28 Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, deputy for Essonne and president of the sovereignist party Debout la France, while a rebellious deputy brandished a Palestinian flag in the hemicycle, and was excluded for 15 days from the National Assembly. The compensation of the Bouches-du-Rhône elected official is also partially suspended.
“A parliamentarian must be exemplary and it is not by brandishing a Palestinian flag that we will fix things. I find it normal that he was sanctioned”reacts Nicolas Dupont-Aignan.
“I have sufficiently denounced the massacre of October 7 and [exprimé] my solidarity with Israel to be able to say today that what is happening in Rafah is abominable and unacceptable”, he continues.
He says he defends “a balanced solution, as a Gaullist”. He pleads for “a perspective of a two-state solution, which is the only solution, without that everything Israel does will be in vain”. “I regret that France is not more vocal about this idea of a Palestinian state, declares the president of Debout la France, perhaps not immediately, because this state must not be in the hands of Hamas, but there must be a Palestinian Authority which recognizes Israel, which Israel recognizes.”
