Deputy RN Grégoire de Fournas was expelled on Friday for 15 days from the National Assembly after making racist remarks Thursday in the hemicycle.
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“The decision has been made, we must look ahead, we must not give this image of the hemicycle”reacted Friday, November 4 on franceinfo Laurent Marcangeli, president of the Horizons and related group in the National Assembly, deputy for Corse-du-Sud, after the exclusion for 15 days of the deputy National Rally Grégoire de Fournas for racist remarks.
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“What was penalized was what resulted from the unexpected intervention of this deputy, the disordersays the president of the Horizons group. This is only the 7th time since 1958 that a session of questions to the government has been stopped. Beyond all that, what happened in the National Assembly did not do any good for parliamentary representation but also for France because this event was seen abroad.
The sentence pronounced by the deputy of the National Rally “gives a somewhat contemptuous image for those fleeing poverty or war and who find themselves on these boats. This gives an image that is not necessarily very human even if the debate on immigration must be conducted in this country “, explained Laurent Marcangeli. This debate should not be made “to the detriment of meaning, of respect, of those who experience immigration in their flesh.”
To avoid incidents in Parliament “every week”, “it will, perhaps, have to review the model of the questions to the government. When the noise is heard it is to the detriment of the parliamentary debate.”
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