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"I sit with my seat": how the National Assembly adapts to deputies with disabilities

2022-06-26T05:31:17.825Z


Elected from the ranks of Nupes, Sébastien Peytavie is the first deputy in a wheelchair of the Fifth Republic. RN José Beaurain is qu


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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Source: leparis

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