After the June legislative elections, the subject of clothing in the National Assembly was raised by deputy LR Éric Ciotti.
The deputies voted on Wednesday 9 November for the obligation to wear a jacket in the hemicycle for men and a tie “recommended“, According to parliamentary sources, after a debate on clothing between LR and LFI. The Bureau of the Assembly, its highest collegiate body, specified the “business attire“already claimed in its”general instructions“.
The proposal submitted to the office simply suggested to “recommend» jacket and tie for men. But a vote was taken in favor of “the compulsory jacketin the hemicycle, indicates a parliamentary source.
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“The wearing of shorts and Bermuda shorts is prohibitedwhich were already de facto prohibited by the request of a “business attire“. The subject of thedress code in session“Was put on the agenda at the request of Éric Ciotti (LR), quaestor of the institution.
Lamenting “a form of laxity in dress and behavior of an increasing number of deputies, in particular from LFI“, he had pleaded in July for”an obligation to wear a tie for menwith the President of the Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet (Renaissance).
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The Insoumis Louis Boyard, 22, had parodied the quaestor’s letter, pointing out “a form of dress and behavioral arrogance of an increasing number of deputies, in particular at LREM, LR and RN“. And he demandedthe prohibition of costumes at indecent prices“.
The wearing of the tie has seriously declined in the world of work and the Assembly, a place steeped in rites and conventions, is gradually coming into unison. Already in 2017, with the landing of the first rebellious deputies, a clothing revolution had begun: the office of the Assembly had to officially enact the right for deputies to sit without a jacket or tie.
The office has just come back to wearing a jacket, which is now compulsory in meetings for men. “The office of the Assembly has just voted the wearing of the compulsory jacket for the deputies. Incredible sense of priorities. Fortunately, we don’t have 10 million poor people in our country.“, quipped LFI MP Damien Maudet on Twitter.
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