After the turbulence, the LFI group in the Assembly will adopt internal regulations

For several months, LFI deputies worked on the “internal regulations” of their group in the National Assembly. Now they are achieving their goal. According to our information, at a group meeting this week, Ségolène Amiot, Daniel Obono and even Hugo Bernalilis presented the fruits of their work to their comrades.

Or a set of rules governing the life of a group of LFI deputies. A corps that became a necessity for some as the group experienced internal turmoil, between criticism of internal democracy, the Quatennens affair or debates during the Hamas attacks on Israel.

At the internal level, the group was also notable in November for the sanction taken by the group’s office against MP Raquel Garrido, who was prohibited from being “a speaker on behalf of the group in parliamentary work for four months.” The office criticized him “not for defending his ideas, but for accumulating repeated actions and comments that are detrimental to the proper collective functioning of the group or its members.” The deputy from Seine-Saint-Denis, a historical melenchonist, took this as a “humiliation.”

There remain “open paths on which we must make a decision”

“We will vote on these internal regulations next Tuesday,” explains the group’s leader, clarifying that the group’s office has given parliamentarians a week to “correct” this text. “We are talking about the modalities of sanctions, about what they are based on; about the rules, when a colleague also goes abroad, he must, for example, inform the group in advance,” he clarifies the same. On some aspects there remain “open paths on which we must decide,” adds MP Insoumis.

These internal regulations have been in development for more than six months and were drawn up from scratch. In addition to the group’s effectiveness, it must streamline exchanges between Insoumis MPs, whose Telegram chain has often become heated in recent months, sometimes reaching violent exchanges.

“This will reduce the frequency of bilateral negotiations and allow us to be more efficient in our work,” hopes the Insoumis MP. Within weeks, LFI MPs had already split their Tuesday group meeting in two, organizing a morning exchange on parliamentary topics and a more political meeting in the evening.