The deputy for Seine-Maritime Stéphanie Kerbarh, who had been excluded from the LREM party after her dissident candidacy for the regional, announced Thursday, October 21 her departure from the LREM group at the Palais Bourbon.
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"With
this decision, I am choosing consistency as a humanist and efficiency by joining a group where work and skills are respected,
" she said in a statement, indicating that 'she joined the composite group Freedoms and Territories.
Stéphanie Kerbarh, from the Radical Party and rallied to En Marche in 2017, was excluded from the movement last June, for having taken the head of a dissenting list for the regional elections in Normandy.
LREM "
excludes someone who is part of the movement, in addition to a deputy, without any exchange, mediation commission
" or other, she had then lamented.
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After his departure, the workforce of the LREM group and related to the Assembly rose to 268 deputies, against 314 at the start of the legislature.
A wave of departures had notably taken place in the spring of 2020, but the workforce has stabilized since the arrival of Christophe Castaner at the head of the group in September 2020, and with the approach of the 2022 legislative elections.
During this legislature, Stéphanie Kerbarh was particularly involved in environmental issues, being rapporteur of the anti-waste law, definitively adopted in January 2020.
