She wanted to draw a first assessment. The president of the National Rally (RN) group in the National Assembly, Marine Le Pen, denounced, on Tuesday, a “total inertia of power” since the re-election of Emmanuel Macron in April, judging that he has not “almost nothing happened” during the first 100 days of his second term.
“They say that it’s in the first 100 days that you sort of drive a mandate. The least we can say is that we felt absolutely no impulse in these first 100 days of Emmanuel Macron. Almost nothing happened, ”said Marine Le Pen during a press conference to review the parliamentary sequence.
“The only thing that happened was this purchasing power bill which was an obligation. Emmanuel Macron could not do otherwise. And we can see that it is far below the needs of our compatriots, ”explained the president of the RN group. “As for the rest, nothing. Nothing, zero, the bubble. Nothing has been driven by Emmanuel Macron in 100 days. It is almost astonishing, almost confusing, this total inertia of power, ”insisted the far-right leader.
Le Pen calls for sanctions against Putin to be dropped
The leader of the far-right party, beaten in the second round of the presidential election by Emmanuel Macron on April 24, was also delighted “to see that the National Assembly has regained power”. “It’s clear, it’s obvious, this is where things are happening. It’s been a long time since much happened in the National Assembly because of the plethora of majorities that have followed one another. Finally, something is happening, the debate is where it takes place, the decisions are made here, the political battle is fought here. »
Marine Le Pen said she was “extremely proud” of the debut of the RN deputies who, with 89 deputies, form the largest parliamentary group in the history of the far-right party. As for the right, “the rallying of the majority of LR deputies to the majority is now obvious. The vote of a budget, even amending, signs belonging to a majority. The false compromise between Emmanuel Macron and the LR staff does not deceive anyone: the right has obtained nothing other than to avoid a crisis on the budget, and therefore a dissolution, ”analyzed the leader of the RN who called the LRs “weather vanes”.
Marine Le Pen also demanded the abandonment of the sanctions taken against Russia because of the war in Ukraine because, according to her, they “are strictly useless”, except to “make Europeans suffer”. “I wish” that the sanctions “disappear to avoid Europe being faced with a blackout, in particular concerning gas imports”, declared the leader of the RN deputies during a press conference. in the National Assembly.
“These sanctions serve absolutely no purpose, except to make European peoples suffer and, incidentally, the French people,” she said. “We are much more victims of these sanctions than is Russia”, which “has found other customers” and which “bypasses the various embargoes”, added the finalist of the last presidential election, denouncing “a succession of chess” on the part of the European Union. For her, “the real sanction with regard to Russia would have been” to make collapse “the prices of gas and oil”, which “would have strangled much more financially” this country.