2023-11-13 06:45:12
What will remain of Sunday November 12, 2023? If the demonstration “for the Republic and against anti-Semitism”initiated by the president (Renaissance) of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, and her counterpart (Les Républicains) of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, was intended to be apolitical and civic, it nevertheless conceals multiple political implications which will leave deep marks.
For the National Rally (RN), and this is the main lesson of this day, there will be a before and an after. Coming in large numbers, the elected representatives of Marine Le Pen’s party, even isolated and under tension, were able to march to the end.
More than thirty years after the major demonstration against anti-Semitism, organized the day after the desecration of the Jewish cemetery of Carpentras (Vaucluse), attributed to four neo-Nazis, it is a Copernican revolution: “a glass ceiling has exploded”was alarmed, Sunday morning in The world historian Grégoire Kauffmann, according to whom the demonstration of November 12 will remain an essential moment in the history of the far-right party, marking a profound recomposition of the political game.
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Some are tempted to see in the controversy which accompanied the arrival of the RN, and its symbolic relegation at the end of the procession, a sign that the latter remains inseparable from its sulphurous past. That would be a cheap reassurance.
Even if she has kept a low profile, Marine Le Pen can already reap political gains, her party having taken a further step in the de-demonization process that she initiated, giving rise to a new ratchet effect. Sunday evening, the German newspaper The mirror published a photo of the imposing RN delegation, accompanied by this chilling title: “The day Marine Le Pen became eligible for Jews. »
A movement to normalize the RN
The break with the era when the Republican front and the cordon sociale prevailed seems all the more complete as the presence of the RN at the demonstration was endorsed without batting an eyelid by several political leaders, including those from the majority.
Sunday evening on BFM-TV, former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe indicated that he was taking « act » of the RN’s change of discourse on anti-Semitism, and therefore refused to “sorting of goodwill” in this matter. The same morning in the Sunday newspaperNicolas Sarkozy indicated that he did not understand « [l’]indignation at the presence of the RN”who has “wanted to cut away from his nauseating past”. Marine Le Pen didn’t ask for that much.
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