French parliament suspended a left-wing lawmaker for two weeks after he held up a Palestinian flag during a heated debate over whether France should recognise Palestinian statehood, AFP reports.

Sebastien Delogu, a member of parliament for the radical left France Unbowed (LFI) party from the southern city of Marseille, stood up with the flag during questions to the government.

Parliament speaker Yael Braun-Pivet denounced what she called his “inadmissible” behaviour, and lawmakers voted to suspend him for two weeks and cut his parliamentary allowance by half for two months.

But no member of the Group of Seven industrial powers — including France, the United Kingdom and the United States — has done so.

But Prime Minister Gabriel Attal in the lower house dodged a question from another LFI member of parliament about whether France would soon join its European allies in doing so.