The news should not tighten the fraternal bonds of the member parties of the Nupes. This Tuesday, April 11, the group La France insoumise voted to reinstate MP Adrien Quatennens, suspended since December 13, into its ranks. Some of LFI’s allies within the Nupes, however, did not want the deputy from the first northern constituency to regain his label, whereas since mid-January he has sat in the National Assembly as a non-registered. Last December, he was given a four-month suspended prison sentence for “violence” inflicted on his ex-girlfriend.
Awareness training as a condition
The LFI deputies considered, in a press release, that “the conditions for the reinstatement of Adrien Quatennens were met”, arguing that their colleague had “engaged in an internship, being finalized, meeting the expected criteria”. The course, organized by feminist associations, aims to empower men who have committed violence against women.
In December, the deputy had acknowledged that “some of his remarks had had the effect, without his having intended it, of relativizing the seriousness of the facts”, in particular when he had considered that a “simple slap” could not be equated with “a man beating his wife”.
The arguments of La France insoumise did not convince its allies, and in particular the Socialist Party, which described the reinstatement of Adrien Quatennens as “unacceptable”: this decision is “both unacceptable and incompatible with the values defended and carried by the Nupes”, writes the PS in its press release. “It’s a political mistake.”