The President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet on Friday sanctioned LFI deputy Ugo Bernalicis with a quarter of his monthly allowance (1,476 euros), after an altercation broke out the day before in the Law Committee, the presidency announced in a communicated. “It will be up to the office of the Assembly”, its highest executive body, to decide on a possible “more severe sanction”, specifies the press release.
“No physical violence”
Ugo Bernalicis caused a scandal on Thursday evening for forcefully demanding a suspension of work in the Law Committee, so that its members could follow the examination of a text in the hemicycle. After the president of the commission Sacha Houlié, the vice-president of the National Assembly Sébastien Chenu (RN) was also indignant at the “intolerable and unworthy” behavior of LFI deputy Ugo Bernalicis. “A significant sanction must be pronounced,” he added in a publication on X (formerly Twitter), republishing a video filmed from the law committee room on Thursday.
In the images, the LFI elected official, standing next to his seat, speaks virulently to President Sacha Houlié. He demanded, in a persistent hubbub, a suspension of the session to allow the deputies of the committee, who were continuing the examination of the immigration bill, to participate in the public session where an LFI text was debated, listed as part of their day reserved, claiming that this text came precisely from the law commission. ” What is this ? », “intolerable” stormed Ugo Bernalicis in the face of Sacha Houlié’s refusal. An exchange of questions and invectives then followed in the room, noted by an AFP journalist but also audible on the video broadcast of the Assembly.
According to several MPs, MP Liot, Christophe Naegelen, and Ugo Bernalicis had a brief altercation, during which there was “physical contact”, but “no violence”, indicated Renaissance MP Caroline Abadie. “The tone has risen,” explained LFI MP Clémence Guetté on franceinfo, specifying however that “there was no physical violence” and calling for “de-dramatization”. Estelle Youssouffa (Liot) described Ugo Bernalicis as “threatening”. “I remained standing in my place,” the latter insisted to AFP, refuting any threat.