“Winter outfit of a deputy.
We dread summer…” These are the comments made by lawyer Alain Jakubowicz on Twitter, on Sunday 19 February.
The former president of the Licra - from 2010 to 2017 - has indeed castigated the outfit of the elected La France insoumise (LFI) of Seine-et-Marne, Ersilia Soudais, dressed in white shorts, worn over tights shoes and sneakers during a session at the National Assembly.
With this sexist post, which now has more than 6 million views, Alain Jakubowicz has drawn the wrath of Internet users, but especially of Nupes.
“Delete your tweet, wrote Raquel Garrido, LFI deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis.
To attack a woman politician on the basis of her outfit is the most classic form of discrimination.
That caused by machismo.
Don't you see it?"
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"Delete"
To which the principal concerned replied: “The way your friends (you see, I make you happy) dress up and behave in the Assembly is unworthy of the place where you sit and of the French people you are supposed to represent. .
Don't you see it?"
For her part, MP Sandrine Rousseau split with a terse “Delete”, when the elected LFI of Seine-Saint-Denis Aurélie Trouvou described the lawyer as “poor misogynist boomer”.
“The sexist attacks against the outfit of MP Ersilia Soudais are a shame, reacted Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
They deserve the withdrawal of the one who holds them in the name of a respected association.
An opinion shared by Aymeric Caron.
“Your tweet is stupid, misogynistic, unworthy of a personality who claims to fight against discrimination, estimated the deputy of Paris.
Honorary President of the Licra, really?
The "tuning" of the Licra
Many Internet users have also expressed their disapproval of this publication.
“You are the archetype of what plagues us, a tired and tiring old guy, wrote @Bulbeuse.
Leave the women alone, drop the jacket and then take the opportunity to take an extended vacation.
For its part, the Licra has dissociated itself from the words of its honorary president.
"Clarification: the Licra fights against racism, anti-Semitism and discrimination," she wrote in a press release.
It categorically condemns misogynistic and sexist attacks which attack the dignity of the human person as much as they disqualify their authors and debase public speech.
For several days, the appointment of Ersilia Soudais as vice-president of the study group on anti-Semitism at the National Assembly has been criticized by the association, because the deputy was a signatory of the motion tabled by the Communists, and denouncing "the establishment of an apartheid regime by Israel against the Palestinian people".
A text that has earned the Insoumis to be accused of anti-Semitism.
In a response addressed to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Alain Jakubowicz for his part disputed "firmly the sexist nature of his remarks".