The political sphere must be “intransigent” vis-à-vis its officials implicated for gender-based or sexual violence, said Thursday the High Council for Equality between Women and Men (HCE), on behalf of the “exemplary nature” of elected officials.
“Those implicated for violence have no place in the institutions representing society,” said in a press release this independent advisory body, attached to Matignon.
This position comes as La France insoumise is mired in a controversy for its reaction to the questioning of Adrien Quatennens. The LFI deputy, who admitted violence against his wife, is under investigation, following a handrail.
The HCE suggests “mandating an independent body”, such as the High Authority for the Transparency of Public Life (HATVP), to monitor the situation of political figures “through the prism of (these) violence”, and this “before the start of their mandate. Elected officials convicted of violence should be systematically hit with an “additional penalty of ineligibility”, and political parties and institutions should set up “networks of anti-violence referents and vigilance cells”, adds the advisory body.
For its part, the militant feminist association, the Observatory of sexist and sexual violence in politics, considered it necessary “to set up a clear and external treatment of reports to the parties, articulated with the judicial system”. If financial scandals like the Cahuzac affair have pushed the public authorities to act for the moralization of public life, on the other hand “no serious reform has been envisaged” to respond to the scourge of violence against women, deplored this association. in a statement posted on Twitter.
The Observatory calls on the government and the President of the National Assembly to “initiate a reflection at the highest level on the training of all political personnel in these questions”.