If the cordon sanitaire around the National Rally (RN) is increasingly tenuous – as proof of the 89 deputies elected in June and the two vice-presidencies of the National Assembly obtained – it still resists in the Hemicycle. The group led by Marine Le Pen had the bitter experience of this on Thursday, January 12, during its parliamentary niche. Although for the first time in its history, the far right had control of the Assembly’s agenda – until midnight – its five bills examined were rejected.
Texts from other parliamentary groups
The proposed texts aimed to encourage companies to increase net wages by 10% by exempting them from employer contributions; to establish a right of visit for parliamentarians in social and medico-social establishments; to abolish low emission zones (ZFE) in agglomerations; to impose the wearing of the uniform at school; or to set up proportional representation.
Rather than positioning itself as usual on the sovereign, the far-right group had chosen to propose texts from other, more consensual parliamentary groups. It was also a question of promoting faces from the most novice ranks of the RN, very discreet in the Hemicycle since the start of the legislature alongside leading figures such as the vice-president RN of the Assembly, Sébastien Chenu (North), or Jean-Philippe Tanguy (Somme).
The “cuckoo strategy”
But the deputies of the presidential coalition and those of the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) managed to sweep away, each time, the texts of the far-right group, by voting deletion amendments. Emptied of their content, none of the RN’s bills could be adopted.
All day, the adversaries of Marine Le Pen’s group have pinned “communication shots” RN elected officials, “their incompetence and their amateurism”and the “cuckoo strategy” which they adopted. The socialist deputy for Essonne, Jérôme Guedj, criticized them for taking subjects from ” of such and such a political family”: “you distort them, you unravel them, you pervert them and you reveal the emptiness of your program”he further accused.
Only the few elected Republicans (LR) present in the Hemicycle gave their support to certain texts such as the abolition of ZFEs or the wearing of school uniforms. “It doesn’t matter where the ideas come from, the legislative proposals. Today, it is the general interest that must take precedence. defended the LR deputy for Oise Maxime Minot, who in 2018 had tabled a bill on uniforms in schools, colleges and high schools.
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