Sebastien Peytavie angry after not being able to vote for the presidency himself

POLICY – ” The people’s house, you say? » Génération.s MP (member of the environmentalist group) Sébastien Peytavie expressed his anger on social networks. For good reason: he was unable to vote for the presidency of the National Assembly himself this Thursday, July 18, as the hemicycle of the Palais Bourbon was still not adapted to his disability.

« I was not able to vote for the presidency of the Assembly by myself. I had to entrust my vote to a bailiff. “, laments Sébastien Peytavie, paraplegic since childhood and who moves around in a wheelchair. And to criticize “ an institution still unable to adapt voting for people with disabilities “, more than two years after his first election.

Since 3pm, the deputies have been called one by one to climb the steps towards the tribune to place a ballot in the ballot box placed above, and thus choose their future president. An impossible journey for the ecologist elected from Dordogne, the very first deputy to sit in a wheelchair in the National Assembly.

This is not the first time that Sébastien Peytavie has noted the shortcomings in the lower house of Parliament. The hemicycle ” is not accessible, except the ground floor, next to the ministers”, he had noticed during his first return to school in 2022Since then, the MP has been sitting right next to the ministers’ benches, a few rows lower than his political group.