Historical and very strategic voltage in sight. The National Rally has decided to open an “internal reflection” on “a golden rule” of the European Budget Covenant. On Wednesday, June 11, the RN deputy for the Somme, Jean-Philippe Tanguy, made the “3% rule” that requires states to maintain budgets that do not exceed 3% of the public deficit.
Too bad if Marine Le Pen spoke in 2012 about this rule as a “democratic violation”, the refusal in the name of French sovereignty is no longer relevant. The objective is clear: demonstrate that the part works, adapts to budgetary developments. “Marine Le Pen did not say that having public accounts was a democratic violation, defends Jean-Philippe Tanguy, vice president of the RN group in the National Assembly, on the BFM business set.
“The budgetary situation pushes us to update the economic program. If we win in 2027, it is more than five years,” adds Andréa Kotarac, RN spokesman and Marine Le Pen advisor.
“A RN chache”
However, the part intends to refine your proposal to satisfy all its components. A track is progressed: maintain the possibility that the Parliament would repeal the golden rule of 3% if most of the three fifths oppose.
Adopted or not in the presidential program of the party, this proposal represents for Jean-Yves Camus, a political scientist specialized in the extreme right, an unprecedented revolution:
Andréa Kotarac confirms that this rule is not only discussed, but “this year again, we will offer a counteracted. There will be no major changes compared to the 2025 budget counter, but changes in certain proposals.” An adaptation justified by the desire to seduce economic circles.
Organized meetings with business leaders
At work, we find the advisor François Durvye. The general director of OTIUM Capital, right-handed by the ultra conservative billionaire Pierre-édouard Sterin, assumes that he organizes more and more meetings with business leaders. “Some bosses ask to see Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella, there are more and more, since the probability of winning in 2027 is growing,” explains François Durvye to BFM Business.
Few meetings took place in 2021 when the billionaire began to be interested in the national demonstration. But since 2022, the scores of the national demonstration in the elections have filled the agendas of Jordan Bardella and Marine Le Pen of citations with the great bosses.
In the party office, we are still delighted with the invitation of Marine Le Pen a lunch-debate organized by the ethics of the employer’s movement in January 2022. “When Cac 40 bosses and business bankers listen to Marine Le Pen, we are far from the cartoons we lend,”
It is the “tie strategy” adapted to the economic environment, summarizes the economist Wilfrid Galand: “The objective of the national meeting is to land as a responsible player. In economics, the strategy of the link is 3% and budget balances, even with respect to pensions.”
Towards capitalization, new revolution?
Beyond the budget, the RN opens the door to the capitalization of pensions. This second idea was born in the alliance with Iric Ciotti, even if nothing was arrested at this time. “Jordan Bardella has spoken about it in recent weeks, but in the short term, the introduction of capitalization aggravates the financing imbalance. It is not a miraculous recipe, but the RN is no longer opposed radically,” said an advisor. In the mouth of Louis Aliot, this idea is even more assumed.
It remains if Marine Le Pen also listens to this ear, she who has always opposed and claims this difference with her ally Éric Ciotti. The political scientist Jean-Yves Camus in any case points to the consequences of such a radical change in pensions: “The risk, without adopting positions that are not distinguished, much of the traditional right, is to disappoint the popular environments that vote for the RN.”
Source: BFM TV
