Continue the noise and fury in the pews of the chamber or settle down. The situation is quite a dilemma for La France insoumise, 120 days after having multiplied by 4 the number of its deputies in the hemicycle.
It was François Ruffin who first stepped on the plate in early October.
“I no longer want to shout on the benches of the National Assembly,” the Somme deputy explained to France Inter in early October.
trembling numbers
Before adding: “I told the group, it’s useless. It strengthens the RN”. She also added that she wanted to “soc-demise” in a tongue-in-cheek tone. The reference is surprising when supporters of social democracy, such as François Hollande, are often very anti-Nupes.
If it is not the first time that the former journalist from Fakir he distances himself from the rebels, his speech does not officially change the way the movement works. However, it comes just a few days after the publication of a survey carried out by The Jean-Jaurès Foundation, which argued that 42% of those surveyed “completely” disapproved of the outspoken and radical opposition of the elected LFI.
Worse yet, this poll indicates that 39% of those surveyed believe that Marine Le Pen’s party is capable of governing, compared to 26% of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s party. What to question the left-wing deputies about the need -or not- to make their move.
“I don’t really feel any urgency to move towards social democracy in the midst of a social and environmental emergency,” MP Clémentine Autain told BFMTV.com.
full staging
François Ruffin, however, gives a cape a few days later in the hemicycle.
“I decided to adopt a new style that is less angry, more calm. But, believe me, it is very difficult when you hear that people would go to Pôle Emploi to settle in a kind of voluntary precariousness like in a kind of Club Med. I hold back”, he says from the podium.
Very notorious statements internally that openly question the general strategy of the 71 deputies of the LFI at work since the last legislative elections by multiplying the dozens of offensive sequences.
“We are here, we are here. Even if Macron doesn’t want to, we are here,” the newly elected rebels sang, for example, for their arrival at the National Assembly at the end of June.
“We assume everything”
A few days later, a fake marriage was held between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen at the Place du Palais-Bourbon, before changing the name of the “Macron bonus”, contained in the purchasing power bill, to “smoking bonus”. in an amendment.
This strategy owes nothing to chance and goes back a long way. As of 2017, the rebels attract attention by multiplying the events, between packages of pasta to denounce the fall of the APL brandished in the hemicycle, a football shirt in the hemicycle, worn by François Ruffin and “bon voyage” posters to celebrate the departure of Manuel Valls who then leaves the hemicycle.
“We take on everything. We would never have talked about certain topics if we hadn’t raised our voices. All our speeches have a meaning and the news proves us right. We are the ones who bring out the fight against inflation”, assures Deputy Luis Boyard.
These events also allow TFI elected officials to occupy the social media arena by flooding it with their speeches and opening the way for criticism. MP (Renaissance) Fanta Bereta reduced the rebels to a “gang of TikTokeurs looking for rumours”.
“Working on our government posture”
Something to think about the members of the Nupes like Philippe Brun, a socialist elected to the National Assembly, and close to Alexis Corbière.
“We had a very friendly dialogue in September within the Nupes intergroup, we collectively told ourselves, and the rebellious people agreed, that we could not behave in the same way at 17 as ‘150 Nupes deputies in the hemicycle and that we had to work in our government position”, deciphers the deputy from Eure.
Message received 5 out of 5. The elected representatives of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s movement have obviously relaxed in recent weeks at the megaphone between sessions of questions to (slightly) calmer governments and the presentation of just a few hundred amendments on the 2023. budget, behind the RN and the LR.
“We were instructed to give priority to substantive amendments to this text. It is less our message than the way of doing it that we can rethink,” explains an employee of the group.
find the middle ground
No denial, therefore, in a line that made Jean-Luc Mélenchon the third man in the presidential election. If there are concessions, the rebels prefer to make them formally. The challenge seems more to prevent the majority from cornering them in the form.
Which does not hesitate to put the rebels – and even the Nupes as a whole in recent days – on the same plane as the RN since Marine Le Pen supported their motion of no confidence. What pushes Emmanuel Macron to denounce the “cynicism” and “disorder” of a Nupes “hand in hand” with the RN this Wednesday.
The search for a balance point was obviously also on the minds of the organizers of the March against high prices on October 16. Despite a few outbursts at the end of the procession, the event remained relatively smooth.
“Be downright serious”
There is no way to make a again of the controversy that followed “La Fête à Macron” in 2018. That year, despite a fair atmosphere, between picnics, brass bands and costumes, some floats had raised their teeth, like that of a Macron puppet hanging from a Gallow.
“We have to find the right balance between carrying anger and earning solemnity. We are working on it and we want to be frontally serious when we see the social project that Macron is preparing,” says Antoine Léaument, intimate of Jean-Luc Mélenchon. .
Many, however, are betting heavily on the parliamentary calendar and the arrival in the coming weeks of the first consultations on the extension of the retirement age to 64 years, which should further increase the tension in the chamber.
“The only radical opposition is that of Emmanuel Macron against the legislative power,” asserts the rebel deputy Raquel Garrido. Social demization is not necessarily for now.
Source: BFM TV
