He had called Mathilde Panot a “fishmonger” in the hemicycle. Deputy RN Jocelyn Dessigny received a financial penalty, the presidency of the National Assembly told AFP on Tuesday. The sanction pronounced by Yaël Braun-Pivet against the deputy of Aisne Jocelyn Dessigny is a “call to order with entry in the minutes. “It automatically entails a” deprivation, for one month, of a quarter of the parliamentary allowance allocated to the deputy “according to the rules of the institution.
The deputy of Val-de-Marne had solemnly demanded this sanction Thursday, denouncing an insult “sexist” and “unacceptable in our Assembly”. She recalled having been targeted by the same insult in 2021 from a Macronist deputy, Pierre Henriet, also sanctioned.
Minimum “
“It’s good” but “it’s the minimum, it’s case law”, reacted the person concerned. “If you let sexist insults and full of class contempt pass through the National Assembly, that means that in all of society, you let it happen. »
After the request for sanction formulated by the deputy LFI, Jocelyn Dessigny had asked to speak in the hemicycle: “if I could upset Mrs. Panot, I apologize, my words exceeded my thoughts. »