the President of the Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet intervened behind the scenes to convince the Keeper of the Seals to apologize

A Keeper of the Seals who gives the arm of honor to a deputy in the hemicycle: it is as surprising as it is unprecedented. And it happened this Tuesday, March 7, in the middle of the afternoon at the National Assembly. The Minister of Justice Éric Dupond-Moretti addressed arms of honor in the hemicycle to the president of the LR group Olivier Marleix, Tuesday March 7, who had just recalled his indictment, before quickly apologizing to the caused outcry.

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During discussions on a text from the Renaissance group for a mandatory ineligibility sentence against perpetrators of violence, Olivier Marleix recalled several cases concerning members of the presidential camp, including the Minister of Justice. Everything then took place behind the scenes: according to information from the political service of franceinfo, the President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, who was not chairing the session at the time, intervened behind the scenes to push the guard of the Seals to apologize.

“Not an adequate gesture”

After two suspensions of the session and half an hour of outcry, the Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti took the floor in the hemicycle, saying that he conceded that “this gesture was not an adequate gesture.The Minister of Justice then continued:If you took it for yourself, I regret this gesturehe replied. But when I make this double gesture, I said it, it’s an arm of honor to the presumption of innocence“. Officially, the majority relativizes. After the agreement on the pension reform, the boss of the LR deputies was “in a hurry to recover an opponent’s health“, taunts a government adviser.

For his part, the president of the LR group Olivier Marleix denounced the “rudeness” of the Minister and wrote to the President of the Assembly, Yaël Braun Pivet, to obtain the images of the session.