Adrien Quatennens believes ” have paid enough and he refuses to resign. After his conviction on Tuesday, December 13 for domestic violence, the deputy from the North, suspended for a period of four months within his group in the National Assembly, raises his head this Wednesday morning. What upset many of its Nupes partners.
Adrien Quatennens did not stick to a media diet. A long interview with the regional daily The voice of the North and sentences heavy with innuendo make a lot of people react. An argument that designates the culprits, the media and the Minister of the Interior, who is accused of having orchestrated the conviction of the rebellious.
” Resigning after being convicted of an act that I have acknowledged would set a dangerous precedent and open the door to all political manipulations of privacy. “, he declared in the columns of the newspaper.
Suspension of the LFI group for four months
In the wake of his conviction, the elected official was suspended for ” a period of four months of the group of LFI deputies, until April 13, 2023. A return will then only be possible if he undertakes to “ follow a training course on accountability on violence against women “. ” I will respect the collective decision of the group “, he reacted. ” But mine is mine and it’s taken : I paid quite dearly on all counts. I won’t give in », adds the one who hears « to honour ” its mandate.
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Within Nupes, the case of Adrien Quatennens divides. ” For a sanction of this nature, we would have pronounced the expulsion “, estimated the first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure, when the communist Sébastien Jumel wondered: ” Is he in a position to defend the common cause which is ours, including the cause of feminists ? »
“There is work to be done on humility”
For Sandrine Rousseau, MP for Europe Ecology-Les Verts/Nupes, Adriens Quatennens’ reasoning is typical and we have to get out of it: ” In this interview, I see elements that are elements of language that we are too used to hearing: lynching, manipulation, conspiracy. And I think that the left and ecology would come out stronger from no longer using these elements in defenses. »
The MP, who asked for her resignation, believes that in this interview, Adrien Quatennens does not carry out any deep questioning. “ There is work to be done on humility, on acknowledging what happened and acknowledging its importance “, she continues.
Even if the rehabilitation of the deputy seems possible for some, his media counter-offensive is struggling to convince within the Nupes. But for the moment, the alliance still holds and the intergroup displays a facade union.
“She is beautiful the moral left”, quips the RN
In the political landscape, the Quatennens case also divides. ” I hate manhunts, so I don’t participate in them “said François Bayrou, the High Commissioner for Planning, on the set of LCI. But, he nuanced, what does not seem normal to me is to say “I don’t sit, but I get paid anyway”.
“ She is beautiful the moral left “, quipped for his part the deputy RN Laurent Jacobelli. In a similar case, the RN issued a permanent exclusion, “ I can tell you it happened within a minute “, he assured on the set of Public-Sénat, about Hervé Juvin, MEP sentenced for violence against his wife.
” La France insoumise is sending a terrible signal here, which is ultimately a lack of conviction, which is ultimately a form of cynicism. : they are there to be elected, they are not there to defend causess,” added the far-right MP.
” What will the words of Adrien Quatennens weigh in the times to come? ? With this task, in his political career ? I think it’s untenable. This is why, including in my opinion for him, he should no longer sit in the National Assembly today “, Estimated for his part on France Info the deputy LR of Lot Aurélien Pradié.
For his part, Gérald Darmanin has ” decided to sue for defamation » after the words of Adrien Quatennens in The voice of the North, the LFI deputy having implicated the Ministry of the Interior in his fall.