French MP Véronique Massonneau was forced to interrupt her address to the National Assembly in Paris after a conservative rival began to cluck like a hen during her speech. 
 
 Turning to Philippe Le Ray, a conservative MP with Nicholas Sarkozy's UMP party, Massoneau an MP with France's green party Europe Ecology - The Greens (EELV), snapped: "That's enough. Stop that, I'm not a hen!" 
 
 However, as Massonneau resumed her speech on planned pension reform the heckling resumed, prompting Claude Bartolone, the president of the National Assembly, to step in. 
 
 "There are things in this House that I will never accept. That an MP attempts to turn into a bird while another MP is speaking is not acceptable," Bartolone said. 
 
 "I understand that both sides have ideas to defend but that you transform [this House] in a playground, no." 
 
 The incident has caused outrage across the country and led to accusations of sexism in the country's top seat of politics with calls for Le Ray to be officially reprimanded. 
 
 A video of the incident has been posted online but noises made by Le Ray are not audible. 
 
 "He cackled and he cooed" Massonneau later told ITele television accusing Le Ray of being a sexist. "I think he was drunk." 
 
 "This kind of sexism is degrading to the Republic and can't be left unpunished," tweeted Pascal Canafin, the deputy minister for development under the minister of foreign affairs. 
 
 Bartolone has called an extraordinary meeting of party whips in the National Assembly to discuss the incident. 
 
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 This article is copyrighted by IBTimes.co.uk, the business news leader ||||| A French MP has sparked outrage and been fined, after he mocked a female colleague by clucking like a chicken in parliament. 
 
 The incident was widely denounced as sexist in a country where the word chicken is often used as a derogatory term for women. 
 
 Véronique Massonneau was forced to stop her address to the National Assembly in Paris when her conservative rival, Philippe Le Ray, began to make the noises. 
 
 However, as she resumed her speech on planned pension reform the heckling resumed, prompting the president of the National Assembly to step in. 
 
 Emily Thomas reports.
– French MP Véronique Massonneau was addressing the National Assembly in Paris when she was interrupted by the sound of a colleague clucking like a chicken. Massonneau, a member of the green party Europe Ecology, eventually turned to conservative MP Philippe Le Ray and said, "That's enough. Stop that, I'm not a hen!" according to the International Business Times. But as her speech on pension reform continued, Le Ray kept clucking, and eventually the assembly president had to put a stop to it. The BBC explains that the word "chicken" can be a derogatory term for a female in France. Critics have been railing against the apparent sexism. Le Ray was fined 25% of his monthly salary, and he called Massonneau to apologize, but she did not accept. During the incident, she says, "I think he was drunk."