She understands Gérard Larcher when he invites Jean-Luc Mélenchon to “close [sa] mouth “. However, Yaël Braun-Pivet prefers a more passive-aggressive technique to invective: contempt. Asked on RTL about the injunction launched Wednesday by Gérard Larcher (LR) to the leader of La France insoumise, the president of the National Assembly replied “I think so, but I am not saying it because, I “I chose another tactic which is not to respond to his excesses.”
“I no longer respond to Jean-Luc Mélenchon because he lives from this today, he only lives from controversies, he only lives from his excesses on the media or on social networks”, detailed the President of the Assembly. She defended the principle of being “simply silent and contemptuous” of the former presidential candidate’s “attacks” that were “targeted at her personally.”
Everything he deserves
She nevertheless assured that “I use these types of words like all French people”. “I understand perfectly that the President of the Senate said them.” But she opts for “contempt, quite simply because that’s all he deserves.”
Questioned Wednesday about a vitriolic message from Jean-Luc Mélenchon treating journalist Ruth Elkrief as “manipulative” and affirming that “if we do not insult Muslims, this fanatic is indignant”, published on the social network X, Gérard Larcher had sharply criticized the former senator. Then finally summed up the essence of his thoughts in one formula: “Shut up! “. After having reacted sharply the same day, Jean-Luc Mélenchon finally joked the next day about the “professional deformation” of his “old vet friend”.