According to the rules of procedure of the National Assembly, Grégoire de Fournas, deputy National Rally, risks up to “censorship with temporary exclusion” from the hemicycle, after his controversial remarks made Thursday during the intervention of the elected LFI Carlos Martens Bilongo, black, who was speaking on the “drama of illegal immigration”. “Let them return to Africa”, admitted to speaking out the RN MP, saying his remarks were aimed at migrants and not the rebellious MP.
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The office of the National Assembly will meet at 2:30 p.m. this Friday to decide on possible sanctions. The internal regulations of the National Assembly recall that there are four disciplinary penalties applicable to its members: call to order, call to order with entry in the minutes, censure or censure with temporary exclusion.
The call to order with entry in the minutes may result in the deprivation, for one month, of a quarter of the parliamentary allowance allocated to the deputy. Simple censure may result in the deprivation, for one month, of half of the parliamentary allowance allocated to the deputy.
Finally, censorship with temporary exclusion can entail the deprivation, for two months, of half of the parliamentary allowance allocated to the deputy and “the prohibition to take part in the work of the Assembly and to reappear in the Palace of the Assembly until the expiration of the fifteenth sitting day following that on which the sentence was pronounced”. In the event that censorship with temporary exclusion is applied for the second time to a Deputy, the exclusion extends to thirty sitting days.
Carlos Martens Bilongo, guest Thursday on franceinfo, said he wanted sanctions “exemplary”.
“There are millions of French people waiting for this sanction. Here is the true face of the National Rally.”
Carlos Martens Bilongoat franceinfo
For his part, Grégoire de Fournas, wrote this Friday on Twitter that he “totally assumes [ses] remarks on the anarchic migration policy of our country”after having entrusted, the day before, be “sorry” of the incomprehension aroused by his remarks. “One thing is certain”for Carlos Martens Bilongo, let his colleague say “that they” Where “Let him return(s) to Africa”these are words “racists“.
When asked whether the rebellious deputy intends to file a complaint, he recalls that Grégoire de Fournas benefits from “parliamentary immunity”. “The remarks made in the hemicycle are difficult to condemn”explains Carlos Martens Bilongo before adding: “I had a call from the police station of my constituency which brought me all the solidarity and which invites me to lodge a complaint even symbolically.”