Expulsions of foreign criminals, pension reform… The RN boosted the political markers this Thursday, October 31, in its day reserved for the Assembly, the opportunity to attack its adversaries on the left and right or even to sting the government, without achieve legislative success.
Although the group chaired by Marine Le Pen has significantly increased its number (125 deputies), it has not achieved a parliamentary victory, despite the support of the Republican Right (ex-LR) group for certain measures aligned with its own on the issue. regalian.
“See you in the next elections,” repeated several elected officials from the far-right group, which had begun its “niche” with a proposal to repeal the pension reform, emptied of substance in the commission.
The RN denounces the “sectarianism” of the left
The RN saw its reinstatement amendments rejected by the Speaker of the Assembly due to its cost to public finances, but still defended its amputated text at length.
The speaker Thomas Ménage attacked an “unfair and useless” reform and criticized “the sectarianism of the left”, which did not want to support his text in committee, as well as the “stubbornness” of the Macronists who turned them into “the one” to torpedo him.
Faced with a confrontation with the RN to present itself as the best fighter for reform, the NFP will defend its text in the “LFI niche” on November 28. “We will discuss a true repealing reform (…) for which you have never fought,” promised Anaïs Belouassa-Cherifi (LFI).
Marine Le Pen, accusing the left of “betraying (their) voters”, assured that her group, on the contrary, would vote in favor of the LFI text.
Heated debate over evictions
In the process, a proposed RN law on the expulsion of criminal foreigners was rejected, in an electric atmosphere. “No, immigration is not an opportunity,” said RN deputy Lionel Tívoli, before pointing out the dangers, according to him, of “massive immigration” in France.
“Am I not an opportunity for France by being here in front of you?” replied Ayda Hadizadeh, PS deputy, daughter of Iranian exiles. And Ludovic Mendes, a Macronist deputy of Portuguese origin, continued: “immigration does not have to be good or bad luck for France: it is the history of France.”
“Disorderly, massive, irrational and out of control immigration is a problem and obviously you know it,” Marine Le Pen declared then, in a context of anathema between the left and the RN.
The text by Edwige Díaz, withdrawn after the elimination of its main article, sought in particular to systematize the expulsions of foreigners for certain crimes or infractions “punished by a prison sentence of at least three years” and to eliminate a series of protection regimes. against evictions.
Minister Daragon toughens the Macronist-LR snack
Nicolas Daragon, delegate minister in charge of Daily Security, partly gave the RN “right” in his observation: “the foreigner who murders outside, the foreigner who rapes outside (…); the foreigner thief, harasser, aggressor three times outside,” he continued, presenting an anaphora applauded by RN, but which caused tensions in the Macronist-LR government coalition.
“We asked ourselves if it was the common base that was speaking or if you represented another political color,” launched Ludovic Mendes.
The minister, however, opposed the substance, judging the text inoperative, counterproductive for the prefects and contrary to the Constitution.
Marine Le Pen, for her part, pointed to ), MoDem and Liot (independent centrists).
Examination of a text on minimal phrases.
At the beginning of the afternoon, RN also withdrew its text to eliminate the energy efficiency diagnostic criterion for housing rentals, stripped of its purpose by a coalition ranging from the left to the Macronists.
At midnight, the debates were interrupted in the middle of the examination of a text by Pascale Bordes, intended to establish a new version of the minimum sentences introduced under Nicolas Sarkozy and repealed under François Hollande. A way to “give meaning back to pain,” according to its author.
The Minister of Justice, Didier Migaud, criticized an unconstitutional text and maintained that it would apply as it is “to non-recidivist minors.”
The minister also defended a “criminal justice” that “has gained in effectiveness” in about fifteen years, and maintained that minimum sentences “have had no impact on reducing the risk of recidivism.”
Source: BFM TV