It’s a clear and simple answer. After the declarations of the Republican Eric Ciotti, who would like to impose the wearing of the tie on male deputies in the hemicycle, the LFI deputies have also decided to wear it. A way to also fight “sexism”. “It’s a snub to stand up to Mr. Ciotti,” declared Clémentine Autain on arriving, green tie around her neck, with her rebellious colleagues in session.
The elected LR, quaestor of the Assembly, last week reproached certain elected officials of rebellious France for “increasingly loose outfits”. “We need to think about this Assembly in the mix”, added the elected representative of Seine-Saint-Denis.
The leader of the rebellious deputies Mathilde Panot estimated that behind the controversy over the tie which has been agitating the Palais-Bourbon for several days arises “the question of the place of women in the Assembly”. “Apparently for Mr. Ciotti, some on the right and on the far right, the presence of women is not yet accepted,” she said.
Sexist remarks
She denounced the “sexist remarks here and there, about the way we dress, or the shape of our bodies”. “Women simply by speaking are scolded, they are asked to be quiet and they are unable to speak in an infernal heckling just because they are women”, added Clémentine Autain.
By wearing the tie “we say it with humor, but we are angry,” she said. The LFI group had already replied to Eric Ciotti by emphasizing that “the clothes do not make the deputy”.
President’s rostrum
The President of the Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet returned to the controversy in a forum on Tuesday in Release, recalling that the rules of the institution provide that “the dress adopted by the deputies in the hemicycle must remain neutral and be similar to business attire”. “In short, a free parliament is also a parliament where people dress freely, but not just any old how,” emphasizes Ms. Braun-Pivet.