Deputies from Nupes and the presidential majority briefly left the Chamber on Thursday night to protest against the decision of the president of the session (RN) to give the floor to Marine Le Pen, when an elected RN had already finished s ‘Express.
The incident occurred when MPs were just beginning to discuss the energy component of the purchasing power bill, which was supposed to allow France to deal with a possible closure by Russia of the gas tap, and more specifically an amendment tabled by environmentalist Delphine. Batho pointing to Russian gas.
“Why several at home?”
Jean-Philippe Tanguy, like several speakers from other groups before him, had just pronounced the position of the elected RNs when the president of the session, Hélène Laporte, also a member of the National Grouping, gave the floor to Marine Le Pen so that could talk talk about the same amendment.
This decision provoked the anger of the left-wing benches. “Why several (speakers) instead?” Exclaimed a deputy, accompanied by several of her colleagues, forcing the session president to justify herself.
This “has happened many times with other groups,” he said, crossing swords in particular with the communist deputy Sébastien Jumel, who asked for a point of order. “Stop this circus!” he told her.
Exit of deputies Juntas and Nupes
In a sign of protest, the Nupe deputies then left the chamber followed by a large part of the elected representatives of the presidential majority, an AFP journalist said.
“It is scandalous to have such practices,” reacted Hélène Laporte del Perchoir.
On leaving the chamber, the deputy for Insoumis, Manuel Bompard, justified this outburst by the fact that no other group in the Assembly would have had, according to him, the free time to allow two different speakers to express themselves on the same amendment.
Hélène Laporte “has a way of exercising the presidency in a very partial way and that intends to benefit the group from which she comes”, she launched to the press, denouncing “unacceptable practices”. The session was suspended after the intervention of Marine Le Pen.
Source: BFM TV
