Aurore Bergé at the National Assembly, October 15, 2019. - CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT / AFP

  • Thousands of views and many critical comments: on Facebook and Twitter, a video showing an intervention by LREM MP Aurore Bergé in the National Assembly has been very successful in recent days.
  • “Aurore Bergé, who was absent from the debates, arrives and reads a ready sheet. Problem: her neighbor had already read it. Upset, she immediately leaves the hemicycle, ”says the legend of this sequence.
  • Its presentation, however, suggests that it is recent, when it actually dates back to the summer of 2018, in the midst of the Benalla affair.

Already regularly targeted by false parodic quotes - taken seriously by some internet users -, MP La République en Marche (LREM) of the Yvelines, Aurore Bergé, has been, for a few days, highly criticized for an odd she would have recently committed before his fellow parliamentarians.


“Amazing situation in the Assembly: LREM MP Aurore Bergé, who was absent from the debates, arrives and reads a ready-made sheet. Problem: her neighbor had already read it. Upset, she immediately leaves the hemicycle, "laughs the legend of a video widely used on Facebook and Twitter, in particular by Florian Philippot, of the Patriots, who sees it as a symbol of the" shipwreck "of" macronism ".

We see Aurore Bergé attacking it, card in hand, elected officials of the opposition, to which she launches in particular: has been yours since the beginning of our parliamentary work on the reform of the Constitution ”. Then, in the wake, the deputy Les Républicains (LR) of Pas-de-Calais, Pierre-Henri Dumont, provoke laughter from the Assembly when he reminds his colleague "that if she had followed the debates from the start , she would not have had to re-read the file that her neighbor had just read a few minutes ago. ”

In response, Aurore Bergé brandishes a red and blue book from her seat while articulating inaudible remarks, before leaving the benches of the Assembly, her bag in hand, as shown in a wide shot of the circulated hemicycle during the speech of Pierre-Henri Dumont.

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Contrary to what the descriptions of these posts suggest - and their sudden virality -, this scene actually dates back to the summer of 2018, in the middle of the Alexandre Benalla affair: we also find the same video sequence and the legend criticizes it. accompanying in tweets published at that time.

The scene was more precisely filmed on July 20, 2018, as can be clearly read on the lower banner of the video, which also indicates that this lively parliamentary session was devoted to the “constitutional law for a more representative democracy”. What did not prevent the Benalla affair - and in particular the commission of inquiry created on this subject the day before - to occupy part of the debates, on the initiative in particular of several elected representatives of opposition.

Fifteen minutes before the intervention of Aurore Bergé, her sister Marie-Pierre Rixain, LREM MP for Essonne, was already intervening to denounce these drifts, as we can see at 2'54'02 on the video archive of the National Assembly: “Dear colleagues, if we are going in circles, it is because you are leading the round of obstruction. We were elected to monitor government action. […] This is the subject of the constitutional reform which is on the agenda of our assembly. It seems to me that the use of the rostrum for media purposes fosters an anti-parliamentary system which, in ancient times, has not led to political crises, but to tragedies in history. "

It was only after the interventions of several members of the opposition - including Alexis Corbière for La France insoumise (LFI), and Nicolas Dupont-Aignan for Debout la France (DLF) - that Aurore Bergé spoke (at from 3'10'37), to make comments effectively similar to those of Marie-Pierre Rixain: “You speak of lack of serenity in the debates; I answer parliamentary obstruction! […] This shows that it is you who are preventing the serenity of the debates in this hemicycle. As part of the constitutional reform, you constantly accuse us of trying to weaken Parliament; but to weaken the Parliament is precisely to prevent us from resuming our work and sabotage the smooth running of the session ”. Her intervention ends, as in the viral sequence, with the criticism of what she describes as "sabotage attempt".

A passage on BFMTV shortly after leaving the National Assembly

During her speech, Aurore Bergé consults several times a file that she first holds on the cover of a blue and red book - the rules of the National Assembly, also visible in the hands of Jean- Luc Mélenchon a few minutes earlier -, before finally keeping only the file within sight.

Benalla affair: "we are witnessing a rather lousy escalation on the part of the opposition" judge Aurore Bergé (LREM) pic.twitter.com/dyJiTUNUsr

- BFMTV (@BFMTV) July 20, 2018

She then leaves the hemicycle during the intervention of Pierre-Henri Dumont, around 6 p.m., as she herself will recognize at 6:42 p.m. on the BFMTV antenna. "I left the Assembly a few minutes ago to join you", she launched in the preamble, before denouncing a "rather lousy escalation on the part of the opposition".

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