The senators LR leave the chamber in protest against a response Sibeth Ndiaye

Asked about the issue of ministerial visits, the spokesman of the government has given a response deemed "offensive" by the senators of the right.

The senators LR have left this Wednesday the chamber, which is rare in the palace of the Luxembourg, during the session of questions to the government, to protest against a response deemed "stupid and offensive" by Sibeth Ndiaye to a question on the ministerial visits.

"If we do not represent anything, if we are invisible (...) so we didn't need to stay to hear the answers that are frankly silly and hurtful for the design of republican that we have," said to the press, the senators ' leader LR Bruno Retailleau to explain the manifestation of the mood of his group.

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The senator LR of the Loiret Hugues Saury had challenged the government on the organization of ministerial visits, during which senators and elected representatives from other parties that LREM "have become 'personae non gratae'", according to him, health reasons being invoked.

"Deeply shocking"

"do you Think that it is legitimate to favour members of parliament, most of the time of your majority, up to decide that they alone represent all the sensitivities ?" he asked.

"At the bottom, since the 11 of may, it is the collective intelligence that must dominate," replied the spokesman of the government, under the bronca of the elect LR. "The strict application of the measures barrier and gestures barrier must be our priority to ensure that these ministerial visits can be conducted in good conditions", she developed, calling n'"y see absolutely no malice policy nor any privilege".

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"It is deeply shocking, I have never heard a response so lightly, here in the Senate," responded Bruno Retailleau after leaving the chamber. "Is this the Republic it is running, is that there is not a privatization of State resources? (...) For any answer we have just heard that it was measures a barrier that mocked you ?", was he offended.

The leader of senators PS Patrick Kanner told the AFP that his group would have also left the chamber in protest, if the question had not been asked by a senator a socialist. He criticised "a response unworthy" of the critic, and "a culture of the prince".