In the European Parliament, the RN, fixed help of authoritarian regimes | EUROtoday

Jordan Bardella likes to explain the European Parliament as a easy “recording room”. An meeting whose sole function could be to ratify the choices taken by the “Brussels technocrats”. However, throughout the Community Hemicycle, the MEPs of the National Rally (RN) form their imaginative and prescient of the world by the votes in session.

Support for authoritarian regimes, refusal to denounce the appliance of the dying penalty or different abuses in opposition to political opponents, ignorance of circumstances of violations of basic freedoms: the lots of of choices taken by RN MEPs in Brussels and in Strasbourg, analyzed by The world, supply an summary of worldwide relations because the far-right motion envisions them. Their positioning is all of the freer because the place doesn’t profit from the media publicity – and presumably controversy – of the National Assembly.

During the final time period (2019-2024), RN elected officers solely needed to justify themselves on their unfailing protection of the Russian regime. The invasion of Ukraine determined by the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, has certainly highlighted fixed help for the Kremlin. Until the outbreak of battle in February 2022, Jordan Bardella and his folks systematically voted in opposition to, whether or not it issues the denunciation of the Russian legislation on “foreign agents” (December 19, 2019), the decision following the poisoning of the principle opponent Alexeï Navalny (September 17, 2020) or the help given to repressed civil society and significantly to the human rights group Memorial – Prize Nobel 2022 – (December 16, 2021).

Principle of non-interference

But the eye paid to the battle in Ukraine since its outbreak has not satisfied the RN troops to hitch the ranks of the protest in opposition to Vladimir Putin. Contrary to a big majority of the group meeting, the French delegation of the Identity and Democracy (ID) group now prefers to abstain on many of the texts taken in help of kyiv, whether or not on account of concern of“escalation of war” (October 6, 2022), to demand the creation of a “court for the crime of aggression against Ukraine” (January 19, 2023) or to carry a “unfailing support from the EU [Union européenne] to Ukraine » (February 29).

The Russian regime does not suffer the opprobrium of the RN any more than before, even when it came to enacting the “inhumane detention conditions” endured by Alexeï Navalny (ten abstentions and one opposition on February 16, 2023). “It is not up to the EU to decide whether this or that state has done things well. Diplomacy, like the army and defense, falls under the jurisdiction of States. (…) We tried to stick to this principle throughout the mandate”, defended Jordan Bardella after the dying in custody of the Russian opponent, introduced on February 16.

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