A niche full of traps. This is what the National Rally (RN) will propose to deputies on January 12, 2023, when one day, the first in its history, will be reserved for bills of its choice. His? Not quite. Among the texts that Marine Le Pen’s group wishes to submit as a priority, one comes from the “rebellious”, the other from the government majority.
The RN thus puts the government and the left-wing opposition at odds: will they vote for a text put on the agenda by the far right, at the risk of cracking what remains of the cordon sanitaire, or will they oppose they to a text that they previously supported, a contortion that would then have to be explained to the French? “We want to advance our subjects and make the other groups uncomfortable”had warned Renaud Labaye, secretary general of the RN group in the National Assembly, about this niche which has been thinking about the party since September.
In first position, the RN will therefore submit a text already adopted in the Senate with the support of all the groups and the consent of the government: a bill by Senator for the North (Union of Democrats and Independents) Valérie Létard, creating emergency aid for victims of domestic violence, in the form of a zero interest loan. Adopted unanimously in the Senate on October 20, the text had not yet been put on the agenda of the National Assembly.
“It obviously does not please me that the first who are interested in a subject yet declared “great cause of the quinquennium” are the deputies of the RN, reacts Valérie Létard. I sincerely hope that an initiative so awaited by the field will not have to suffer from it and that the text will be voted in conformity. » This is what the RN will propose, which could thus claim the adoption of a law within its niche, on a text to which it did not initially contribute.
Electorally promising subject
This should not be the case with the following two bills, where the RN will find it difficult to find allies, except perhaps among Les Républicains (LR). One concerns the permanent exemption from employer contributions for a company that increases its salary scale by at least 10% up to three minimum wage. A measure of Marine Le Pen’s presidential program, judged harshly by the Institut Montaigne, a liberal think tank, and which presents technical and legal difficulties. The other text concerns the abolition of low emission zones, an eminently sensitive subject, electorally promising, and which the RN considers as an expression of “punitive ecology”.
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