No need to debate pensions for chaos to reign in the Assembly.
While the deputies were examining a Renaissance bill on the establishment of a penalty of ineligibility in the event of domestic violence, the Minister of Justice, Éric Dupond-Moretti, got carried away, addressing two arms of honor to the president of the LR group Olivier Marleix.
“
I regret this gesture (...).
It is the gesture of someone who, perhaps, was wrong to react as he reacted to an accusation he does not consider justified, and this for two and a half years, "he said
. explained, after several adjournments.
"
I am deeply affected by this moment that I am brought to live.
I repeat here with great force that I did not want to target President Marleix, but if my gesture was misinterpreted, I apologize to him, as well as to all the national representation, "
he added. .
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Initially at the podium to determine the position of his group on the macronist text, the boss of the right-wing deputies had just mentioned the legal situation of the Keeper of the Seals.
“
Your majority would have benefited from having a session of introspection on the theme of
“
he who has never sinned casts the first stone”.
(…) I refresh your memory
, ”he had launched.
Before recalling the "
indictment for illegal taking of interests
" of the tenant of the Chancellery.
What the person concerned did not support, seeing in it in essence an "
arm of honor made to the presumption of innocence
» - joining the action to the word to support his point.
Led by LR deputy Patrick Hetzel, the elected Republicans then demanded and obtained several suspensions of the meeting, regretting “
something quite unspeakable.
“All against a backdrop of protests and boos in their ranks, as well as on the benches of the left.
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