The twenty days of heated debate around the pension reform have accentuated a trend: the sometimes excessive consumption of alcohol by some deputies. A situation that could become problematic.
” Some order coupettes as early as 11 a.m., others order rum at 4 p.m. This is what a Renaissance deputy confides in the columns of Sunday newspaper.
Excesses are frequent, to the point where the question of excessive alcohol consumption was raised during a meeting of the Bureau of the Assembly.
It is up to each parliamentary group to manage its own members, but MPs sometimes blame opponents. ” The Insoumis will be warmer tonight because they will have passed through the refreshment bar “Laughs, for example, an elected Macronist at the JDD. While a Nupes deputy promises: “ I see more old Republican MPs drinking than La France Insoumise MPs. »
Alcohol in the Assembly: Yaël Braun-Pivet asked the group presidents to manage the consumption problems of his deputies, reports the JDD. Everyone finds excuses (minimization of the problem, “stress”, etc.). Our deputies are (almost) French like the others…
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An unlikely ban
Figured comparisons of alcohol consumption at the bar compared to the last legislature will be presented to the office in early April. Prohibition of alcohol seems a long way off, but has already happened in other countries.
For ten days, alcoholic beverages have for example disappeared from the Flemish Parliament, in Belgium, where a minister is accused of having forced on the bottle before a debate.