LFI deputies are expected to vote on Tuesday on the reinstatement in their parliamentary group of their colleague Adrien Quatennens, suspended for four months after his conviction for violence against his ex-companion, AFP learned on Friday April 7 from several deputies. rebellious.
Adrien Quatennens was given a four-month suspended prison sentence in December by the Lille Criminal Court.
He returned to the National Assembly in mid-January, as a non-registered, because he was suspended from the group of LFI deputies until April 13.
Nupes coalition partners felt that he should be permanently excluded from LFI.
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Hearing of a joint group
A joint group of four people "
will first audition
" Adrien Quatennens, explained a member of the parliamentary group to AFP, then will report on this hearing at a meeting of the bureau on Monday.
“
We are awaiting the return of the group that is auditioning him.
Then, there will undoubtedly be a vote of the deputies, during the meeting of the parliamentary group on Tuesday
, ”said the same source.
“
Our group will decide in due time and as it wishes,
” LFI coordinator Manuel Bompard told AFP, while indicating that the possibility of a vote was “
real
”.
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“
There is a decision that was taken by our parliamentary group which was to exclude Adrien Quatennens from the group for four months, it was taken by vote
”, he justified on LCI.
"
So it was normal, since there were a number of conditions that were attached, to check whether these conditions are met or not
," he said.
“
Our group is not a barracks.
If people have any doubts, they can ask that we be able to vote, and in this case we vote, and it is the majority that wins
, ”he added.
Among the conditions imposed on Adrien Quatennens for a return to the group, was in particular the participation in an internship on violence against women.
Several rebellious deputies demanded a "
review clause
" concerning the four-month suspension decision, after a television interview with Adrien Quatennens in December, in which he detailed the circumstances of the slap in the face to his wife and seemed, according to a deputy, “
reversing the assaulted/aggressor relationship
”.
