On Tuesday 4 June, during questions to the government, La France insoumise MP Rachel Keke brandished a Palestinian flag, leading to a brief suspension of the session. The gesture was reminiscent of that of her colleague from the same party, Sébastien Delogu, a week earlier, for which he had been excluded for a fortnight

Rachel Keke said afterwards: ‘My colleague Sébastien Delogu may have been on the wrong side of the rules, but he was on the right side of history’. The President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, called him to order and announced that the Bureau of the Assembly would meet to discuss a possible harsher penalty.

Shortly before this incident, several left-wing MPs had arrived at the sitting dressed in colours symbolising the Palestinian flag, while other MPs from the majority and the right wore their tricolour scarves. Yaël Braun-Pivet pointed out that the National Assembly is a place for democratic debate and that parliamentarians express themselves exclusively orally.

Aymeric Caron, MP for La France insoumise, raised the issue of the ‘massacre of civilians in the Gaza Strip’ and called on Emmanuel Macron to recognise the Palestinian state. In response, the Minister Delegate for Europe, Jean-Noël Barrot, criticised Caron for failing to pay tribute to the 43 French compatriots killed in the attack on 7 October.