In the National Assembly, the RN exhibits off its impotence | EUROtoday

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The president of the RN group, Marine Le Pen, and the RN deputy, Jean-Philippe Tanguy, at the National Assembly, October 1, 2024.

“Dear colleagues, what are we doing today? » Many deputies sought the meaning of the debates on Thursday October 31. On the legislative level: none. They devoted a good part of their day to debating abstruse articles and amendments, relating to hypothetical reports on pensions and falling – even before being voted on – to the oblivion of the National Assembly. The fault of the National Rally (RN) which, master of the agenda during its annual parliamentary niche, had chosen to keep on the program a proposed law (PPL) to repeal the latest pension reform, yet emptied of its substance after its passage in committee.

The far-right party preferred to sacrifice more than five hours of this day to useless exchanges rather than admit defeat by the left. “The parliamentary niche is a parallel world for the French, it only interests politicians and journalistsjustified, the day before, Jean-Philippe Tanguy, deputy president of the RN group. This day is above all about display: we refuse to let go of the idea that social issues would be secondary for us, to let the newspapers headline that we are giving up on pension reform. » So his party allowed discussions on a devitalized text to drag on. And the operation “unveiling” of the “socio-traitors” promised by the frontists became the staging of a formation embittered by its impotence.

The bitterness of the RN lives as much as the hopes based for weeks by the motion on October 31. With the biggest group within the Assembly (125 members), subsequently the primary parliamentary area of interest within the legislature, the ex-National Front supposed to take pensions without warning a left caught in a dilemma between historic concession to the acute proper or renunciation of a elementary promise. The communication artillery was prepared: an internet site was created for voters to jot down to MPs responsible of denying their convictions; elected officers who would then be the topic of leaflets – with title and photograph – to be distributed of their constituency. All that was lacking was the vote on the tough textual content.

“Thug methods!” »

Las. By abstaining within the Social Affairs Committee, many left-wing elected officers allowed the middle and the fitting to delete the principle provisions of the PPL, the reintroduction of which by amendments was refused by the President (Renaissance) of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet. “They thought we have been going to surrenderruminates Thomas Ménage, rapporteur (RN) of the amputated textual content. We have been able to do something to not give the impression of falling by the wayside. »

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