For the PCF Fabien Roussel, Adrien Quatennens "cannot remain a deputy"

The boss of the PCF Fabien Roussel estimated on Wednesday that the former number two of LFI Adrien Quatennens, who admitted having committed domestic violence, cannot remain a deputy, advocating "zero tolerance" on this subject.

“No domestic violence should be tolerated (…) and if in my group at the National Assembly a deputy was the perpetrator of domestic violence and he confessed to having committed it, he could not remain within the group”, explained on CNews the deputy from the North, before adding: "I would say to him: you cannot remain a deputy".

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"How can he go to see the citizens of his constituency, represent the Republic with his scarf when one admits to having committed an act of this nature, it is unbearable", he continued.

“They bicker non-stop”

“We cannot, we must not accept it, there must be zero tolerance in this area”, hammered Mr. Roussel in response to a question about Adrien Quatennens, who admitted to having slapped his wife, and who is the subject of a complaint lodged by the latter.

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“The resignation is necessarily based on the person, but in any case the political parties must necessarily be irreproachable in this matter”, he said.

Fabien Roussel also deplored "passes of arms in the National Assembly" which are "not up to the subject" after the deputy Aurore Bergé (Renaissance) denounced Tuesday in a question to the government the "men who strike their wife", in a clear allusion to Quatennens.

The LFI group responded sharply, one of its members receiving a call to order.

“There, it was the response of the Bergé to the shepherdess because they bicker without stopping”, quipped the boss of the PCF, once again marking his distances with LFI, his partner within the Nupes.