Ersilia Sudais makes a speech in the National Assembly. (Paris, October 18, 2022) Abaka
Honorary President of Licra took to Twitter on Sunday, February 19, to mock the dress of elected LFI Ersilia Sudais. The Nupes and many internet users criticized this “sexist post”.
“Deputy’s winter outfit. We are afraid of summer…”. Lawyer Alen Jakubovich made such comments on Twitter on February 19, Sunday. The former president of Licra, from 2010 to 2017, really joked about the outfit of Saint-Etienne’s chosen La France insoumise (LFI) Ersilia Suday, wearing white shorts, black tights and sneakers during the session. In the National Assembly.
With this sexist post, which now has more than 6 million views, Alain Jakubovich has drawn the ire of netizens, but especially Nupes. “Delete your tweet,” wrote Raquel Garrido, LFI MP for Saint-Saint-Denis. Attacking a female politician with her outfit is the most classic form of discrimination. The one caused by machismo. Can’t you see that?’
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“Delete”
To which the main interested party countered. “The way your friends (you see, I cheer you) dress and behave in the assembly, is not worthy of the place where you sit, and the French you have to represent. Can’t you see that?’ For her part, MP Sandrine Rousseau parted with the laconic word “Delete” when the elected LFI of Saint-Saint-Denis called Aurelie Trouvoux lawyer a “poor burning boomer”.
“Sexist attacks against MP Ersilia Souda’s clothes are shameful,” responded Jean-Luc Melenchon. They deserve whoever keeps them in the name of the respected association. An opinion shared by Aymeric Caron. “Your tweet is stupid, misogynist, unworthy of a person who claims to be fighting against discrimination,” assessed the deputy of Paris. Licra Honorary President indeed?
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Many internet users also expressed their disapproval of this publication. “You are the archetype of what plagues us, a tired and tiresome old man,” wrote @Bulbeuse. Leave the ladies alone, ditch the jacket and then take advantage of the extended vacation.
For its part, Licra has been spared the words of its honorary president. “Explanation. Licra fights against racism, anti-Semitism and discrimination,” he wrote in a press release. It strongly condemns misogynist and sexist attacks that attack human dignity to the extent that they disqualify their authors and degrade public speech.
It’s been a few days since the appointment of Ersilia Soudais as the vice-chairman of the research group on anti-Semitism in the National Assembly was appointed by the association, because the deputy signed the motion presented by the communists and condemned “the creation of an apartheid regime by Israel against the Palestinian people”. A text that caused the Insumis to be accused of anti-Semitism. In his response to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Alain Jakubovich disputed “the sexist nature of his words”.
Source: Le Figaro
