He is not one of the nineteen LR parliamentarians to have voted for the cross-partisan censure motion tabled against the pension reform. Some people wanted to make him pay for it? The deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes Éric Pauget found his permanent office in Antibes stoned this Tuesday morning, “after the vote”, he said on Twitter, announcing the filing of a complaint.
“To attack an elected official is to attack our rule of law. Order, law and respect for everyone must prevail in our nation”, he also reacted, “strongly condemning this violence and the pressure on elected officials”.
“We will not give in to intimidation”
On Sunday, Éric Ciotti, the boss of the Les Républicains party, had himself discovered his premises in Nice damaged and tagged. An inscription left next to a broken window warned: “La motion ou le pavé”. “We will not give in to intimidation,” he reaffirmed on Tuesday, giving all his “support” to his colleague from Antibes.
In favor of pension reform, Eric Ciotti assured last week that his party would oppose any motion of censure. Nineteen LR deputies, out of 61, however approved that carried by the Liot group, finally rejected with nine votes. “Our political family, in a spirit of coherence, of responsibility, refused to join in the inevitable chaos if the motions of censure had been adopted”, he reacted, despite a more than obvious disagreement within party.
In Amiens, the office of the Les Républicains party was also vandalized on Monday evening during a demonstration against the adoption of the reform after recourse to article 49.3 of the Constitution. “They took trash cans and blew up our storefront,” Jean-Marc Albert, deputy departmental secretary, told AFP. “Then they dumped a lot of things,” he added, adding that a complaint should be filed on Tuesday.