It is a disagreement which remains purely formal, assure the members of the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes). “We don’t have quite the same combat tactics”, assumed Mathilde Panot, Thursday, November 3, while announcing the filing of a second motion of censure signed by the only rebellious France in response to 49.3 triggered by the government. After having voted, willy-nilly, the first motion of their “rebellious” colleagues, the Socialists distanced themselves from the second Friday – finally rejected. The deputy of Essonne, Jérôme Guedj, to explain it, quoted “a tactical difference only on the advisability of multiplying the motions of censure”. “Sometimes a group makes a breakaway when the others prefer to keep their strength for the final sprint”he added.
Since June and the entry of Nupes into the National Assembly, the left-wing deputies have been divided. Embodying the union on the one hand, keeping its own parliamentary culture on the other… enough to raise questions. Especially since the National Rally (RN), reinforced by its 89 deputies, accumulated, until the racist interpellation made Thursday, November 3 by the deputy Grégoire de Fournas, the signs of parliamentary respectability. And that the Macronist majority constantly refers to the « chaos » sown according to her by the left.
In this context, everyone makes their choice. The “tie strategy” of the RN, the “rebellious” care little. Despite the discomfort aroused among their colleagues by the RN’s votes for left-wing motions, they have no plans to deviate from their repeated censorship texts. “It’s a battle of attritionbelieves the LFI deputy for Bouches-du-Rhône Manuel Bompard, the cost is not for us but for the government. It is not nothing for the executive to have to come and listen to the oppositions for half a day, to interrupt the parliamentary agenda. The question is who will crack first…” Not the LFI deputies therefore, even if it means having to tire their colleagues from Nupes.
Beyond the motions, the executives of the “rebellious” group are rather afraid of normalizing themselves too much in the Hemicycle. Alexis Corbière, for example, recognizes the need to measure interventions, but the deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis above all points to the risk of a form of “parliamentary cretinism”in which LFI would fit into the “purr” of the Assembly, in defiance of the promises made to the working classes and of its revolutionary references. “I’d rather have hotheads who want to be the voice of the people than self-interested bureaucrats clocking in to take pay”he said.
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