LFI deputies under sanctions: their leader Mathilde Panot seizes the Council of State

The political debate about pension reform is taking a legal turn. The leader of the French deputies who rebelled in the National Assembly, Mathilde Pano, explains that she wants to appeal to the Council of State, France’s highest administrative body.

On Wednesday, 77 deputies, including 68 LFIs, were called to order. This decision, taken by the Bureau of the Assembly, is the weakest possible disciplinary measure. These include elected officials who held up a “64 is no” sign on March 16 when Prime Minister Elizabeth Bourne resorted to 49.3 to pass the pension reform text.

Also of concern are elected officials who interacted during closed-door debates, or others such as Aurélien Prady (LR), who carried a microphone to speak during half-cycle sessions.

Even if the sanction is weak in the hierarchy of possibles, it provokes a strong reaction from the left. “We are not children who need to be punished, but deputies who oppose your pension reform. No call to order will silence us or scare us,” said environmentalist Sandrine Rousseau.

“Performer of basic works of executive power”

Mathilde Panot announced that she would challenge calls for order in the Council of State. “If necessary,” his group “will apply to the European Court of Human Rights.” However, the university professor of law recalls the decision taken by the same Council of State in 2011. ci,” he wrote at the time, declining the request presented to him.

“These sanctions against opposition deputies demonstrate that you not only do not enforce the prerogatives of the legislature, but are nothing more than an executor of the basic work of the executive branch in its authoritarian direction,” Mathilde Panot also said as president of the parliament. Assembly, Yael Brown-Pivé, in a letter.

The latter herself wrote to the deputies so that they “remember that the Assembly is not a circus.” In her letter, she denounced “serious individual or collective dysfunctions” and “unacceptable and inappropriate behavior” since the legislature began last year. She criticizes the “spectacle” described as “often deplorable in the eyes of visitors and observers of political life.”