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The rebellious MP was stripped of the right to be a “speaker on behalf of the LFI group” for a period of four months after actions deemed harmful to the movement.
The sanction fell this Monday for the rebellious Raquel Garrido. After months of resistance against the Mélenchonist line, the Insoumise was deprived of the right to be “speaker on behalf of the group in parliamentary proceedings for a period of 4 months“. At the end of an hour and a half of hearing conducted by the office of the La France insoumise (LFI) group, she was notably deprived of questions to the government and explanations of vote, we learned in a press release.
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The rebellious apparatus, however, defends itself from any ideological bludgeoning, ensuring that it is not accused of “defend your ideas“, but “an accumulation of repeated actions and comments which harm the proper collective functioning of the parliamentary group“.
“Disparagement” and “false information”
There are three charges. The elected official from Seine-Saint-Denis is blamed for having broadcast “false information in the press about the group or its members”, but also for its “impeachment and ad hominem denigration of several members of the group» as well as its “targeting of employees of the parliamentary group“. Still according to this same press release, two rebellious members of the office were charged “to maintain mediation so that the return to normal takes place in the best conditions“.
Raquel Garrido has been causing a stir for many months within the left-wing movement. In October, the MP already made a scathing observation from the Chief Insoumis by judging that Jean-Luc Mélenchon had “notbeen doing nothing but harm for ten months“. A few weeks later, Raquel Garrido reiterated the charge, clearly revealing her differences with the leader of LFI in the columns of The Obs : “I am a rebel who criticizes Mélenchon, do I have the right?»
L’Insoumise reacted strongly on X (formerly Twitter), ironically castigating the “verdict of the ICC (the rebellious Criminal Court)“. “Does 4 months mean anything to you? It’s like Adrien Quatennens…», She noted in reference to the punishment inflicted on the deputy from the North for acts of domestic violence. And to express his emotion: “I am humiliated, I am angry, I am ashamed to see this evolution of the political project to which I have devoted 30 years of my life.»
His colleague from Paris, Danielle Simonnet, told him “total solidarity“. “A disciplinary sanction to “settle” political disagreements? And the same as against someone who was convicted of domestic violence? Insoumis.es do not accept this!“, she urged the activists of the movement. The rebellious MP Clémentine Autain said “appalled» at the microphone of France Inter before adding: “We do not resolve political differences with bureaucratic sanctions.»
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