“Shut your mouth… Shut your mouth… But shut your mouth!”
It's a little past 5:30 p.m. Thursday.
In the small courtyard of the National Assembly, Louis Boyard yells at Erwan Balanant.
It's cold, but the exchange is sulphurous.
The tone rises quickly between the two men.
The elected MoDem criticizes the LFI deputy for having published a little earlier on Twitter the list of parliamentarians who voted against a measure which would have allowed all students to pay their meal 1 euro.
"It's not right to do that, you are targeting deputies"
, tance Balanant, furious.
“Shut your mouth”
, repeats Boyard to him, in front of other Insoumis parliamentarians, who encourage him to shorten the exchange.
"Go away"
, launches the coordinator of La France insoumise, Manuel Bompard, to the elected centrist.
The tension is palpable.
“I thought they were going to come to blows
,” describes a witness, impressed by the violence of the exchange, which eventually fell a few minutes later.
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