He wanted to have all his friends from the "green pole" behind him.
So Sébastien Peytavie, new Nupes deputy from the Dordogne, negotiated with the services of the National Assembly.
In a wheelchair since the age of three, following post-operative complications, this former wheelchair rugby winger could not sit in the narrow bays of the hemicycle alongside his comrades.
Hastily, the old house that is the Palais-Bourbon had to adapt.
She had already done so in 2012 by adjusting a bench for Damien Abad, the first elected disabled person to enter it.
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