The Friday refusal of the Insoumis Thomas Portes to apologize for a tweet against Olivier Dussopt interrupted the examination of the pension reform, pending a possible sanction from the deputy.
The meeting at the Assembly is suspended until the office of the institution, its highest collegiate body, decides. It was convened by the President of the Assembly Yal Braun-Pivet, because of the uproar in the hemicycle around this controversial tweet.
Mr. Portes was summoned before this body. The Insoumis, girded with his tricolor scarf, staged Thursday on the social network, his foot on a ball bearing the image of the Minister of Labor.
As Mr. Portes began to defend an amendment in the Chamber on Friday, the presidential majority covered his remarks with boos. Calm down colleagues, there’s no ball here, the deputy threw at them.
Don’t be surprised, dear colleague, Yal 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 extreme right.
Demanding impartiality from the holder of the perch, the boss of the LFI group Mathilde Panot asked for a suspension of the meeting.
On resumption, reminders of the rules followed. We demand an apology from you. We will never let anything pass, said in particular the leader of the Renaissance group Aurore Berg.
We are not on the head-cutting side, also declared Jean-Louis Thiriot (LR).
On the other side, Raquel Garrido (LFI) accused the majority of obstructing and hindering the right of amendment of an elected official.
While Mr. Portes still could not defend his amendment, a second break was ordered by Mrs. Braun-Pivet.
I will withdraw my tweet the day you withdraw your reform which will sacrifice thousands of people, then said Mr. Portes.
Mrs. Braun-Pivet then announced the meeting of the Bureau of the Assembly.