Around the National Rally. After the parliamentary niche of La France insoumized in December, Marine Le Pen’s party presents its own bills on Thursday. The movement should send his opponents back to the dilemma of rejecting texts they might agree with, or voting toe-to-toe with him and be accused of collusion.
In the menu of this day in which the RN sets the agenda of the National Assembly, that is, the texts examined by the deputies, there is in particular one of the main proposals of the movement during the presidential election: the incentive to companies. increase wages by 10%.
A proposal for uniforms to tempt the LR and certain macronistas
But Marine Le Pen wants to be much broader than her electoral base and wants to show that her group wants to act on issues that go beyond its foundations, even if it means entrenching the opposition.
The right could thus be tempted to say yes to the bill that must be debated this Thursday on the uniform in schools and colleges. During the televised debate by the LR presidency, Éric Ciotti, Aurélien Pradié and Bruno Retailleau, the three of them positioned themselves in favor of a single group in schools.
Some in the ranks of the presidential majority also defend their port while 7 macronista deputies had presented a similar bill last November, then supported by Sonia Backès, the Secretary of State for Citizenship. Brigitte Macron also made it known in the columns of the Parisian I would appreciate the deployment of the measure.
The ban on EPZs, a workhorse of the right
Another text could also arouse interest beyond the 88 elected officials of Marine Le Pen: the abolition of low emission zones. Released to improve air quality, when pollution is thought to be the cause of almost 100,000 premature deaths in France every year, their objective is to prevent the most polluting vehicles from circulating in certain areas, mainly in the center of cities.
In short, cars manufactured before 1997 and diesel before 2001 could be banned in 45 towns with more than 150,000 inhabitants by 2023. The RN sees it as the symbol of “punitive ecology” just like the LRs that have been around for years. campaigning for the government to back down.
Winks are also thrown at Modem with the bill to “revitalize political representation” to elect deputies proportionally. François Bayrou has been defending this issue for years. The president himself said that he was open during the 2022 campaign to “fully proportional” in the National Assembly.
“Kiss of Death”
However, it remains unlikely that these texts will be adopted by right-wing deputies and, a fortiori, by the other camps.
“We can agree with the things they say but voting for that is no. It would be a kiss of death for us”, summarizes an LR deputy with BFMTV.com.
Due to lack of time – at midnight, the debates stop automatically – certain proposals should not be debated either, such as the presumption of self-defense for police officers.
“We knowingly placed him at the end of the parliamentary niche. We are already very identified with the defense of the police. We do not necessarily have to add more ”, deciphers a deputy from RN.
LFI concerned about unvaccinated caregivers
The rebels found themselves walking a tightrope even before the floor debates. The RN group announced last December that it wanted to take over La France insoumise’s proposal to reintegrate caregivers not vaccinated against Covid-19.
Although the Social Affairs Commission had said not a few hours after the appointment of a RN rapporteur to defend him, it was Caroline Fiat, an LFI deputy, who was appointed to defend him, in accordance with current regulations. In fact, it was already she who had carried the text of her group in the chamber.
But, in the face of the clamor, especially from the benches of their communist partners, the rebels had finally withdrawn.
Renaissance and LFI “Cultist Behaviour” for Le Pen
The presidential majority also broke into a cold sweat. Marine Le Pen wanted to defend a bill on universal emergency aid for victims of domestic violence. It would have been difficult to reject it from the chamber when it had been unanimously approved by the Senate last October. The text was eventually taken over by Renaissance.
“I see that the parties, and in particular those on the left, have a completely sectarian behavior,” the group’s leader rebuked this Wednesday before the association of parliamentary journalists.
While he rejoices that the RN niche allows a good exhibition of the work of its deputies in the midst of a tie between the left and the government on the pension reform.
Source: BFM TV
