“Is it polite and respectful?” ”, Borne vapotes in the embly and the Senate, the opposition rises

It’s not a secret. Whether it be in the privacy of his office or sometimes during interviews, the Prime Minister compulsively likes to take a few puffs on her electronic cigarette. A way, perhaps, for the chief executive to evacuate the daily pressure of her task. But now, this regular vaping has now become a weapon for the opposition.

The reason ? Elisabeth Borne has been seen vaping in her hand several times during sessions in the National embly or the Senate, which is prohibited by law. The elected LR of Oise, Maxime Minot, had thus already challenged her in 2021 by estimating that Élisabeth Borne, then Minister of Labor, was vaping “quietly”, while he asked her “a question in the Hemicycle “. “The new world is really particular… “, had commented the deputy.

“Is it polite and respectful of Parliament? »

“And to think that it is to the rebellious that we teach maintenance lessons. The Prime Minister has an electronic cigarette on her cheek in the middle of a session on the #Motion of censure. She smokes discreetly in the middle of a session? Is it polite and respectful of Parliament? It was with this tweet that the deputy of France Insoumise, Antoine Léaument, relaunched the controversy on Monday.

An attack in the form of a response to the pes of arms that followed the words of Louis Boyard, also LFI, with regard to the President of the embly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, whom he had accused of being an “agent of the Élysée”. “It is clearly a dismissive attitude. We feel that it hides a certain feverishness ”, also commented on the vaping of Prime Minister Cyrielle Chatelain, EELV deputy for Isère, with BFM TV.

You should know that smoking or vaping in the Chamber of the National embly or the Senate is simply prohibited. “Vaping in a place for collective use is punishable by a fine of up to 150 euros”, according to the article L3513-6 of the Public Health Code. But according to Check Newsthis ban was the subject of a decree in April 2017, clarifying the law for establishments open to the public, where an exception is now required.

But the hemicycles, whether the Senate or the Palais-Bourbon, are not strictly speaking open to the public, apart from public sessions. “In addition to the deputies and certain officials of the embly, only the members of the Government and their collaborators are allowed to enter”, specifies for example the embly his website. However, some areas welcome outside people, in this case, the stands and the galleries. Elisabeth Borne could thus go there to vape and avoid any controversy.