“Not in our name”.
The rebellious MPs Sarah Legrain and Alma Dufour protested against the interview given by Adrien Quatennens, convicted of domestic violence, in which he announced his return to the National Assembly in January.
On Tuesday, the LFI group, however, had decided to exclude it from its ranks for four months.
"From the start, I have defended the collective positions of the rebellious parliamentary group", assured in a tweet Sarah Legrain, deputy for Paris and member of the commission on sexist and sexual violence of LFI.
"I just have to react to Adrien Quatennens' personal communication: not in my name, not in our name," she added.
A temporary exclusion criticized
Alma Dufour, MP for Seine-Maritime, agreed: “The decision taken within the group is the removal of our colleague for a defined time.
I would like to point out that the interview he did on BFM cannot be carried on our behalf.
I support my colleagues who have dissociated themselves from it”.
They refer to an interview given on Wednesday to the BFMTV channel by Adrien Quatennens, who announced his return to the Assembly as a non-registered member from January and maintained "not to be a violent man".
After his 4-month suspended prison sentence for "violence" against his wife, the man was excluded from the LFI group for four months.
If the other partners of the Nupes, socialists, communists and ecologists criticized the simple suspension of Adrien Quatennens within the LFI group, only an insubordinate deputy, Pascale Martin, spoke publicly to denounce “a political error”.
"He should have been excluded from the group," she said on RMC-BFMTV on Wednesday.
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