LFI deputy Sébastien Delogu excluded from the National Assembly for fifteen days for brandishing a Palestinian flag within the hemicycle | EUROtoday

The Bouches-du-Rhône deputy Sébastien Delogu (La France insoumise, LFI) was excluded, Tuesday, May 28, from the work of the National Assembly for fifteen sitting days, and might be disadvantaged of half of his parliamentary allowance for 2 months.

During the session of inquiries to the federal government, the LFI deputy had earlier brought on an interruption of the session after brandishing a Palestinian flag within the Assembly hemicycle, whereas the minister delegate for French folks overseas, Franck Riester, responded to a query from MP Alma Dufour (LFI) on the state of affairs in Gaza.

The sanction proposed by the workplace of the Assembly was permitted by the bulk, the correct and the intense proper, the left having largely spoken out towards throughout a vote by “sitting up” within the hemicycle.

President Yaël Braun-Pivet, who denounced habits “inadmissible”, had introduced, on the resumption of the session, that she was convening ” immediately “ an workplace of the Assembly “to be able to rule on the case of Mr. Delogu”. Questioned by the press, Mr. Delogu affirmed that his gesture was a “personal initiative”.

This exclusion was pronounced on the idea of article 70 of the laws of the National Assembly which gives that any deputy could also be sanctioned “who engages in demonstrations disturbing order or who provokes a tumultuous scene”.

“The spectacle we saw at the National Assembly this afternoon is absolutely heartbreaking”mentioned for his half the Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, Tuesday night throughout Valérie Hayer's marketing campaign assembly in Hauts-de-Seine. “Obviously we must have all the debates in our Republic (…) but, in the National Assembly, there are only two flags behind which we all find ourselves: the flag of the French Republic and the flag of the European Union! » proclaimed the leader of the government, to thunderous applause from the Macronist activists present in the room.

Before declaring: “ The heartbreaking and distressing spectacle that we saw this afternoon at the National Assembly confirmed one clear thing to us: between the socialists and the “rebellious”, immediately, I deplore it, it’s the similar factor! » Gabriel Attal continued by stating that “the socialists stood as one man to support the deputy who brandished a flag other than the flag of the French Republic or the European Union in the hemicycle”.

Gabriel Attal dodges a query on recognition of the Palestinian state

Furthermore, throughout the query session to the federal government, Gabriel Attal dodged a query on the popularity of the Palestinian state, the day when Spain, Ireland and Norway formally took this symbolic step.

“Yes or no, will the French government finally recognize the State of Palestine? », asked the leader of the environmentalist deputies, Cyrielle Châtelain, during questions to the government, Tuesday May 28 in the Assembly. The Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, did not respond.

“A priori, it’s no, but you don’t assume it”, concluded the MP in her proper of reply. M^me Châtelain additionally denounced “a lousy and political response” of the top of presidency. She additionally requested him if France was going to advocate “strong sanctions against the Israeli government” to the UN Security Council and the European Union within the face of the offensive on Rafah, within the south of the Gaza Strip.

“Not a taboo subject for France”, in accordance with Emmanuel Macron

Gabriel Attal accused Cyrielle Châtelain of getting intervened “to call for a ceasefire without recalling that we have hostages currently detained and without clearly calling for their release”. “With the same vigor that we call for a ceasefire, we must call for the release of all the hostages, including our French hostages”he insisted.

However, Cyrielle Châtelain started her intervention by recalling that, “for more than seven months”environmentalists joined “at the request for the release of hostages held by Hamas terrorists”.

Emmanuel Macron additionally repeated on Tuesday that the popularity of a Palestinian state was not a “taboo subject for France”. “I am totally ready to recognize a Palestinian state, but (…) I consider that this recognition must come at a useful time”he mentioned at a joint press convention with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Meseberg, close to Berlin. “I cannot make an acknowledgment of emotion. »