Elected officials will have to put themselves in the fashion of the National Assembly. The deputies voted for the obligation to wear a jacket in the hemicycle for men, Wednesday, November 9, according to parliamentary sources. A vote by the Bureau of the Assembly, its highest collegiate body, has clarified the “city clothes” already claimed in its “general instructions”. The tie, on the other hand, is “recommended”.
The proposal submitted to the bureau, however, simply suggested “recommend” jacket and tie for men. But the deputies present at the vote preferred to insist on the compulsory nature of the jacket. is also prohibited “wearing shorts and Bermuda shorts”which was, de facto, already prohibited by the request of a “city clothes”. LFI deputy Damien Maudet greeted the news with irony: “Incredible sense of priorities. Fortunately, we don’t have 10 million poor people in our country”.
The office of the Assembly has just voted the wearing of the compulsory jacket for the deputies.
Incredible sense of priorities. Fortunately, we don’t have 10 million poor people in our country.
— Damien Maudet (@damienmaudt) November 9, 2022
The subject of the “dress in session” was put on the agenda at the request of Eric Ciotti (LR), quaestor of the institution. lamenting “a form of laxity in dress and behavior of an increasingly large number of deputies, in particular from LFI”he had already pleaded in July for “an obligation to wear a tie for men” with the President of the Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet (Renaissance).
The Insoumis Louis Boyard, 22, had parodied the quaestor’s letter, pointing “a form of dress and behavioral arrogance of an increasingly large number of deputies, in particular at LREM, LR and RN”. And he asked “the ban on costumes at indecent prices”.
The wearing of the tie has declined in the world of work and the Assembly, a place steeped in rites and conventions, is gradually coming into unison. Already in 2017, with the landing of the first rebellious deputies, a clothing revolution had begun: the office of the Assembly had to officially enact the right for deputies to sit without a jacket or tie. But the office, on this first point, has just reversed its jacket.