Commission of inquiry into the violence of October 17: “We need to lay everything down”, believes the President of the National Assembly

"The results of the work" of the commission of inquiry into the violence of October 17 and the strategy for maintaining order will be published by "the end of the year", hopes Yaël Braun-Pivet, the president of the National Assembly, Tuesday October 20 on France Inter. “We need to lay everything down,” explains Yaël Braun-Pivet after the violence of October 17. “We must ensure that this does not happen again. We must have a doctrine of maintaining order that holds up.”

For the President of the National Assembly, last weekend, there was "a failure, a failure since success is maintaining order". As of Tuesday morning, Yaël Braun-Pivet will therefore convene the parliamentary group presidents to set up "as quickly as possible" this "commission of inquiry", which "aims to look at where there has been a failure".

“We need to question him quickly because what we saw this weekend must not happen again, it’s outrageous.”

Many voices in the political class have denounced in recent days the lack of anticipation on the part of the government in the face of last weekend's mobilization. “When order is not maintained at this level, obviously we have not succeeded, recognizes Yaël Braun-Pivet. In any case, the government has not succeeded, and this is the reason why I proposed the creation of this commission of inquiry.” “Afterwards, the strategy of maintaining order is also the number of people you put on the ground. Obviously, the number of people was insufficient. There were these questions about maintaining order, and absolutely everything must be addressed.”

The President of the National Assembly also calls on the government and parliamentarians to “hear” the hundreds of thousands of “our compatriots who demonstrated peacefully this weekend throughout France, with significant mobilizations”. While the budget continues to be amended in the Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet wants more “answers to mobilized high school students and students”. "There are absent teachers, there is Parcoursup, there is orientation, we have to deal with everything. We must not forget these fundamental subjects. We must also not forget the questions of purchasing power that our fellow citizens talk to us about. We act as if, in fact, everything had disappeared."

While the debates continue in the National Assembly, the president of the chamber regrets that the discussions resemble a “sausage fair”. “Everyone is proposing things and new spending, and all the savings are rejected by parliamentarians.” “France must have a budget,” she concludes.