On the sidelines of the debate on the repeal of the pension reform, on Thursday afternoon, November 28, the ushers of the National Assembly and elected officials had to intervene between several deputies, after an incident caused in the chamber by the deputy by MoDem Nicolas Turquois. , according to sources and parliamentary images.
Turquois went up to the halls of the chamber during a suspension of the session around 10:30 p.m., appearing to threaten the socialist deputy, Mickaël Bouloux. “My family was threatened! And these are people from your town! »I would have pulled from the first to the second, according to The Figaro. According to a MoDem source, the Vienna deputy complained to Mr. Bouloux about “Threats, insults and phone calls” received for his opposition to the repeal of the pension reform, later discussed by deputies within the framework of the La Francia insumisa (LFI) niche.
“Rebel” MP Antoine Léaument claimed to have been threatened by Mr Turquois when he asked him to leave. “I told him ‘if you’re violent, get out.’” “He came down, came towards me and told me “because of you I am threatened””declared Léaument to BFM-TV and LCI, believing that the elected official of the presidential camp “It’s completely out of control.” As the situation worsened, the president of the MoDem group, Marc Fesneau, as well as other elected officials and sheriffs, intervened to make Mr. Turquois leave the chamber, which he ended up doing, to boos from the left, as shown in the images. shot by the “rebel” deputy of Haute-Vienne, Damien Maudet, published on the social network X.
The parliamentarian denounces “unacceptable methods of LFI.”
When the debates resumed, the president of the session, Xavier Breton (LR), announced that he would propose to the president of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, to discuss the incident at the next meeting of the National Assembly, with a view to a sanction. . , claimed in particular in the chamber by the socialist Arthur Delaporte. Antoine Léaument criticized the incident and thanked the bailiffs for intervening, believing that otherwise it would have been the case. “took a donut”while the president of the MoDem group also took the floor to say that “repentant” the actions of your colleague.
On Friday morning, Mr. Turquois stated on BFM-TV that “regret” have “failed” andHe assured him that he would apologize to the socialist deputy Mickaël Bouloux. However, he denounced “unacceptable methods of La France insoumise.” The elected official thus mentioned a “list of deputies who presented amendments” oppose the proposal to repeal the pension reform, “widely disseminated by the networks of insubordinate France” and sent ” has [ses] loved ones »a way according to him of doing ” pressure “ about these. Mr. Turquois admitted having gone to Mr. Léaument “dynamically” but he claims not to have “I had no desire to beat him up.”.
“We can only deplore [l’incident] “, reacted government spokesperson Maud Bregeon, interviewed on Friday morning on France 2, “because I believe that in the end, beyond individualities, it is the image that we transmit collectively.” If the minister from the Macronist ranks considered it legitimate “that the debate takes place, that it is sometimes tense, that the deputies defend their convictions, support their positions through amendments,” described the images from Thursday night as“inadmissible” and of “deplorable”.
The incident occurred at the end of a tense day, during which deputies from the government coalition (MoDem, Renaissance, Horizons, Les Républicains) slowed down debates on a proposed LFI law aimed at repealing the 2023 pension reform, in to avoid reaching a vote that they would have lost due to support for the text of the New Popular Front and the elected representatives of the National Group.
It is not the first time that Nicolas Turquois has not come to blows with some of his colleagues, as reported The Figaro. The latter had clashed several weeks ago with the far-right deputies Aymeric Salmon and Jean-Philippe Tanguy, in the Salle des Quatre-Colonnes.
