The Friday refusal of the Insoumis Thomas Portes to apologize for a tweet against the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt interrupted the examination of the pension reform, pending a possible sanction from the deputy.
The session at the Assembly is suspended until the office of the institution, its highest collegiate body, decides.
It was brought together by the President of the Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet, because of the
"tumult"
in the hemicycle around this controversial tweet.
Thomas Portes was summoned before this body.
The Insoumis, girded with his tricolor scarf, staged Thursday on the social network, his foot resting on a ball bearing the image of the Minister of Labor.
"Call for Murder"
As the LFI deputy began to defend an amendment on Friday in the hemicycle, the presidential majority covered his words with boos.
“Calm down colleagues, there is no ball here”
, launched the deputy to them.
"Do not be surprised, dear colleague"
, Yaël Braun-Pivet then told him.
"I believe that the hemicycle asks you to apologize,"
she added, to the applause of the majority, the right and the far right.
Demanding
"impartiality"
from the holder of the perch, the boss of the LFI group Mathilde Panot asked for a suspension of the session.
On the resumption, the reminders of the rules were linked.
“We demand an apology from you.
We won't let anything go, ever."
, said in particular the leader of the Renaissance group Aurore Bergé.
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“We are not on the head-cutting side”
, also declared Jean-Louis Thiériot (LR).
On the other side, Raquel Garrido (LFI) accused the majority of
“obstructing”
and
“obstructing the right of amendment”
of an elected official.
Thomas Portes still could not defend his amendment, and a second break was ordered by the president.
"I will withdraw my tweet the day you withdraw your reform which will sacrifice thousands of people,"
he then said.
“It is neither more nor less a call to murder”,
launched Éric Woerth (Renaissance), about the tweet of the elected LFI.
“You may hate what we want to do, but we're not hateful.
No proper name deserves to be smeared, no face even symbolically deserves to be trampled on,”
tried to calm Frédéric Descrozaille (Renaissance).
"Inappropriate"
Yaël Braun-Pivet then announced the convening of the office of the Assembly
"given the absence of an apology from Mr. Portes which clearly causes an uproar".
Mathilde Panot said she was in favor of it so
that “we can continue on the pension reform”.
Illustrating the tactical differences within the left, the ecologist Eva Sas then estimated in front of the press that
“the tweet of Thomas Portes was inappropriate and that it is necessary to return to the debates on the bottom in the hemicycle”.
“We believe at least that there should be regret in relation to what is happening and in relation to the tweet that was made”
, added his colleague EELV Sabrina Sebaihi.
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A deputy incurs four types of
"disciplinary penalties"
for his behavior within the precincts of the hemicycle: simple call to order, call to order with entry in the minutes, censorship, or censorship with temporary exclusion, which is the heaviest penalty.
For the two most severe penalties, the decision must be approved by a vote of the Assembly.