“Often lamentable spectacle”, “worrying degradation” of the debates: the president of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet (Renaissance) sent a letter to all the deputies on Friday to recall the rules and deplore “serious dysfunctions”. “The first months of the 16th legislature were obviously marked by serious individual or collective dysfunctions in the functioning of our working bodies and by a worrying deterioration in the serenity and quality of our exchanges”, considers the holder of the perch, in this letter that AFP was able to consult.
Reminder of the ban on placards
The “sad record” of sanctions for “unacceptable or inappropriate behavior” must “challenge us all”, she claims, referring to “invective” and “heckled sessions”. The President of the Assembly then recalls a series of rules, such as the ban on using “signs” in the hemicycle, while several dozen deputies, mostly rebellious, have just been called to order for having brandished signs “64 years old, it’s no” while singing the Marseillaise on the day of the triggering of 49.3 on pensions.
Yaël Braun-Pivet also underlines the “prescription prohibiting telephoning inside the hemicycle” or using “any communication tool with the outside”, in an allusion to the “live” of the LFI Ugo Bernalicis on the network social Twitch or to the microphone-ties worn in session by deputies from different sides, including the LR Aurélien Pradié, for a report from France 2. The holder of the perch thus entrusted a mission to the vice-president Naïma Moutchou (also responsible for the communication and press delegation) in order to “take stock” of “filming authorizations and the rules for taking images and sound” at the Assembly, but also “on the use made by the members of various communication tools”.
A series of protests on the left
Among the questions, how to preserve the use of the closed doors of joint joint commissions, these bodies where deputies and senators meet to try to find a compromise on a proposal or a bill. During the CMP on pensions, elected officials from the left-wing coalition Nupes claimed to advertise the debates on social networks, for more transparency, provoking the ire of the other camps.
The recent call to order inflicted on dozens of deputies has sparked a series of protests on the left. “We are not kids to be punished but deputies who oppose your pension reform. No call to order will silence or scare us”, squeaked the ecologist Sandrine Rousseau on Twitter.
The leader of the LFI group Mathilde Panot has announced that she will challenge these calls to order before the Council of State, and “if necessary” her group “will turn to the European Court of Human Rights”. “These sanctions taken against opposition deputies demonstrate that, far from enforcing the prerogatives of the legislative power, you are no more than an executor of the base works of the executive in its authoritarian turn”, asserts she to Mrs. Braun-Pivet in a letter.