the office of the National Assembly will not sanction the deputies of the Nupes present

The answer is no. The presidents of the three groups of the presidential majority had asked, Tuesday, July 11, that the office of the National Assembly sanctions several parliamentarians of Nupes who participated, Saturday in Paris, in a demonstration in memory of Adama Traoré prohibited by the prefecture from police. In a response by mail sent to them on Wednesday morning, the President of the National Assembly assures that “the office is not the appropriate body to sanction the facts that have occurred” outside the Palais-Bourbon, learned franceinfo from a parliamentary source, confirming information from the Figaro and AFP.

In other words, the office of the Assembly will not sanction the deputies of Nupes during its meeting which is to be held on Wednesday July 19, without excluding a debate on the subject. “These facts took place outside the National Assembly and do not fall within those on which the regulations give the office jurisdiction to rule”, explains Yaël Braun-Pivet in this letter. The regulations and the penalties mentioned therein “apply only to incidents that occur within the precincts of the National Assembly”.

An argument rejected by the President of the Assembly

The presidents of the Renaissance, Democrat and Horizons groups relied in their request on article 70 paragraph 2 of the regulations of the National Assembly. This provides that any member of the National Assembly “may be subject to disciplinary penalties” if he “engages in demonstrations disturbing the order” or if he “causes a tumultuous scene”. “However, this gathering was banned for the same reason of risk of disturbance to public order”, argued the three group presidents. But, according to Yaël Braun-Pivet’s reading, the “tumultuous scene” to consider is that which occurs inside the National Assembly, not outside it.

In March, the deputy LFI Thomas Portes had certainly received a temporary exclusion pronounced by the office of the National Assembly for having set foot on a balloon bearing the effigy of the Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt, during a demonstration. outside the National Assembly. But the parliamentarian had been sanctioned “on the basis of the fifth paragraph of Article 70 of the Regulation” of the National Assembly, which “sanctions provocations against the Assembly”, Yaël Braun-Pivet then explained. And the sanction had been pronounced after heated debates, linked to the refusal of Thomas Portes to apologize. This was not the case in public session after the demonstration on Saturday.