The National Assembly adopted in extremis Thursday evening a Republican bill to fight against domestic violence, the oppositions withdrawing their amendments to allow this green light before midnight.

Adopted by 41 votes for and 40 against, the text of the deputy LR of the Lot Aurélien Pradié provides for the creation of a "jurisdiction specialized in intra-family violence".

The number of femicides increased by 20% in France in 2021 (122 against 102 in 2020).

From January 1, 2022 to mid-November, 100 women have already been killed by the blows of their spouse, according to an associative collective.

Accusing the government of "obstruction", the opposition deputies had withdrawn all their amendments to go directly to the vote before the end of the parliamentary "niche", a day reserved for LR to present its texts.

Amendments withdrawn

With the clock ticking when only three amendments out of 57 had been examined, the LR deputies began by expressing their dissatisfaction with the two ministers present.

"You must not engage in a game of obstruction week after week," lamented the boss of LR deputies Olivier Marleix.

"It's recidivism and pure and simple sabotage" abounded Aurélien Pradié, deploring "an absolutely detestable maneuver, which is more on a subject like this".

"You are doing everything so that we do not examine this text because you are afraid of being beaten," he added.

Then, the deputies asked for a suspension of the session at the end of which they announced that they were withdrawing their amendments.

It is a question of continuing in the Senate “the work of co-construction”, underlined the deputy LFI Antoine Léaument.

“So that we can vote for it,” added environmentalist Sandra Regol.

“Obstruction of the government?

Not a single amendment with us, ”replied the Keeper of the Seals Eric Dupond-Moretti.

"You sit on your own convictions to push through" while "on the composition, on the skill, you do not agree", he launched.

"Discount Law"

"You stole the debate," he repeated several times, recalling that the government had announced in early September the launch of a parliamentary mission on the subject.

“She could have said some interesting things,” he lamented.

According to him, “this text is a danger, because it disrupts the courts”.

Adopted at first reading, the proposal will be sent to the Senate, with a right-wing majority.

It provides for the creation of a specialized court, on the model of Spain, combining "the powers of the civil judge and the criminal judge", relying "on referents within each prosecutor's office", explained Pradié in session.

Denouncing a proposal "made in a hurry" and a "cheap law", the Minister Delegate for Gender Equality, Isabelle Rome, announced during the debate the organization of "a contact group of two weeks" at the end of the parliamentary mission, "to involve the different political groups".

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