2023-12-08 16:00:11
The president of the Europe Ecologie-Les Verts group at the Assembly, Cyrielle Chatelain, in Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis), December 7, 2023. GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT/AFP
For a time, the left believed that the deputies of the National Rally (RN) “would self-destruct”, as Cyrielle Chatelain, leader of the environmentalist deputies, confides. The day after the participation of Marine Le Pen and her elected officials in the march against anti-Semitism on November 12 in Paris, the environmentalist deputy for Isère wonders: why is the software of the far-right party, incompatible with national unity and an incapacity to govern are not coming to light?
Faced with the rise of the far right, the left and ecologists could reread Bertolt Brecht’s warning, says Cyrielle Chatelain, in a paroxysmal reference to the play The Resistible Ascension of Arturo Ui, which depicts Germany in the 1930s. “We are in this moment”, she insists. In the epilogue, the playwright writes: “You learn to see, rather than being wide-eyed. »
Certainly, during the first days of the mandate, the RN deputy for Gironde Grégoire de Fournas launched a racist invective in the middle of the session, while his colleague La France insoumise (LFI) Carlos Martens Bilongo (Val-d’Oise) was speaking. But since then, public incidents have become rarer. “They are quite silent in the Hemicycle, it’s rare to see them come out of the woods”notes the LFI deputy for Haute-Vienne Damien Maudet.
“Ideological victory” of the far right
THE “to flush out” requires patient work of exegesis of the votes in the Assembly. “Look at vote by vote: on a Macronist bill to limit the right to strike of air traffic controllers, for example, the RN voted for. On each occasion, we have to ask ourselves what campaign we are going to do behind it, with the air traffic controllers”, continues Mr. Maudet. Increasingly confident, the RN is not immune to missteps, hopes its socialist colleague from Eure, Philippe Brun.
In terms of the party’s errors, the MP notes the vote against the increase in the minimum wage to 1,500 euros in July 2022 and, more recently, against the left’s amendments on the installation of doctors in medical deserts, within the framework of the Valletoux bill “aimed at improving access to care through the territorial commitment of professionals”. “In my constituency, I exploit this 100%”assures Philippe Brun.
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The “rebels” prefer to concentrate their offensives against Emmanuel Macron. “Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who has the most audible words on the left, his angle is the majority”, regrets Cyrielle Chatelain. In his last meeting in Rochefort, on November 30, the three-time presidential candidate mentioned Emmanuel Macron six times, but only once « Mme Le Pen » and his proposal to increase wages by lowering social security contributions.
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