“Our role is to lead the fight in the National Assembly.” A guest of BFMTV-RMC on Monday, Marine Le Pen justified the non-presence of the National Rally (RN) in the demonstrations against the pension reform, which is opposed by the far-right formation.
According to her, “everyone must run down their corridor”, although “all the mobilizations are good”. The head of deputies of RN distinguishes several “fights”, between those of the “National Assembly”, “in the street” and “with the means to explain the harmfulness of this reform”.
“Leading the battle in the National Assembly”
“The unions take to the streets, it is legitimate […] But we […] our role is obviously to lead the battle in the National Assembly”, defended the triple candidate for the presidential election.
The fact remains that in the RN not everyone has assumed these elements of the language. Do some of you plan to go to the next inter-union mobilization on January 31? “Maybe, I don’t exclude it,” replied Sébastien Chenu, vice president of the flame party on France 2 last Friday.
Problem however for RN elected officials: they are not welcome at these demonstrations. Why? Because the latter have “opposite values to ours”, justified Philippe Martínez, general secretary of the CGT, indicating however to make “the difference between voters and leaders”. His CGT counterpart, Laurent Berger, is in the same position.
“Hypocrisy”
At the microphone of BFMTV-RMC, Marine Le Pen denounces “hypocritical behavior”.
“It is hypocritical to come to cry for something for which they are responsible, that is, the election of Emmanuel Macron and to wage war on those who have always opposed the pension reform,” he said.
To oppose the government within the chamber, the fifty-year-old announces that her group “will present a referendum motion” to “make a referendum” with the question: “Do you agree with the law proposed by the government? or are you not agree?”
Source: BFM TV
