His sentence is as heavy as that which targeted Adrien Quatennens at the time after his conviction for domestic violence. Raquel Garrido had accused Jean-Luc Mélenchon of “harming” the movement, she was sanctioned by the office of her parliamentary group which accuses her of “an accumulation of repeated actions and comments”. The LFI MP said she was “humiliated” this Tuesday.
In a press release published on the night of Monday to Tuesday, the office announced that the member for Seine-Saint-Denis, interviewed Monday evening for an hour and a half, “could no longer be a speaker on behalf of the group in parliamentary work for a period of four months.
Accused of harming “the proper functioning of the group”
The group took the trouble to specify that Raquel Garrido is accused “not of defending her ideas” but of having harmed “the good collective functioning of the parliamentary group” by “the dissemination of false information in the press about of the group or its members” or “the ad hominem accusation and denigration of several members of the group”.
“ICC Verdict [la Cour pénale insoumise] : 4 months,” the MP immediately reacted on X (ex-Twitter). “I am ostracized. For what ? Because I held firm on the principle of non-cumulative mandates, (…), because I dared to denounce the masculinist communication of Adrien Quatennens orchestrated by Sophia Chikirou and supported by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, because I “I defended the unity of Nupes, the union movement, and LFI during the great pension movement while the LFI leadership was only splitting, splitting and splitting again (…),” she listed.
“I will hold on”
During the hearing, “in good faith, I defended my positions. I refuted the unfounded and false accusations step by step,” she said, further estimating that “the group’s office had no right to take such sanctions” to, according to her, “resolve political disagreements.” through coercive measures. “I’m humiliated, I’m angry,” she added.
But, “I will hold on”, she warned while mediation must be put in place “so that the return to normal takes place in the best conditions”, according to the LFI group. Questioned on France Inter on Tuesday, Clémentine Autain, another dissident figure from LFI, said she was “appalled” by this sanction. “The party does not strengthen itself by purifying itself,” she said. “The logic which underlies all of this is the idea that the clan would go before the movement”, in direct reference to Jean-Luc Mélenchon and his relatives.