New politico-media coup in the Adrien Quatennens affair.
While the deputy made his big comeback this week in the National Assembly Chamber, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, guest Thursday evening of BFMTV, decided to leave the set of the program "
Face à BFM
" after a series questions about his former right-hand man.
The deputy from the North was given a four-month suspended prison sentence in December for “
violence against a spouse
”
.
Before this sequence, the former presidential candidate had had a fairly lively exchange with presenter Maxime Switek.
Affirming loud and clear that the content of the program would have been negotiated upstream and that the interview should only have revolved around the pension reform, the Insoumis took the journalist to task for not
" having warned that (they) were going to
talk about it (the Quatennens affair)
this evening.
And to castigate journalists “
without principles, without faith or law.
“
I have only one thing to say: the law applies, it applied to him, he was punished enough, I was punished enough, all the rebels were punished enough.
Every convicted person has the right to be rehabilitated.
Everyone has the right to it.
He was not condemned to ineligibility.
So he does his job as a deputy
“says Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
As a response to the little music according to which Adrien Quatennens, after his conviction, should have represented himself before the voters.
“
Leave him alone, let go of us, let us do politics
,” he got carried away.
“
I know very well that not everyone agrees with me.
But I will not change my principle to please I do not know what fleeting opinion which despises the principles of the Republic
, ”adds the leader LFI.
The return of Adrien Quatennens in the hemicycle had caused a certain bronca Tuesday evening.
During a question on the pension reform, the elected official had provoked the ire of the opposition and some applause among the Insoumis.
Shortly after his conviction, the deputy had been excluded for four months from the LFI-Nupes group in the National Assembly.