Ten days after the legislative elections, extreme right deputies managed to make a place for themselves at the Palais-Bourbon with the assistance of the presidential coalition and the right.
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“I do not want to be placed on the far right of the hemicycle.” Marine Le Pen causes an upset of eyebrows in her counterparts in the Palais-Bourbon. It is barely 9:30 am, Thursday, June 30 in the National Assembly, when Yaël Braun-Pivet, the new president of the institution, reveals before the ten representatives of the parliamentary groups the plan of the location of the seats in the Hemicycle.
The president of the National Rally (RN) group is upset: her training is placed, as usual, to the right of the Republicans (LR). The populist leader offers rather to settle, with its 88 deputies, more in the center, to the left of the LR group. Yaël Braun-Pivet does not concede any change. The scene is indicative of the new ambitions of the party of M Me le Pen. The elected officials of the RN, like Laurent Jacobelli, deputy of Moselle, hammer that they “will never let it go”. Namely, to be classified on the far right.
For a week, everything has been a matter of symbols and statutes at the Palais-Bourbon. The installation of the new deputies, elected in an unprecedented context of fragmentation of the political landscape, already appears as a test of truth, where each actor of the legislature is faced with the accelerated normalization of the party of Marine Le Pen. According to her relatives, the finalist of the presidential election is so satisfied that she “lives up”.
“It’s non -negotiable”
Illustration of this new deal: the conditions, Thursday morning, of the election of the president of the finance committee, a position reserved for the opposition. The first two laps did not lead to any absolute majority: Eric Coquerel (La France Insoumise, LFI) finished in the lead with 20 votes, far ahead of Jean-Philippe Tanguy (RN, 11 votes), Véronique Louwagie (LR, 8) and Charles de Courson (freedoms, independent, overseas and territories, 2).
LR elected officials then claim a session suspension. They have a quarter of an hour to agree with the RN. In an adjoining living room, M Me Louwagie and Marc Le Fur (LR, Côtes-d’Armor) suggest to Jean-Philippe Tanguy to withdraw for the benefit of the LR candidate, considered more consensual. “It’s not negotiable, we have won the elections, you lost them,” retorts the RN deputy for the Somme.
The RN believes in a mouse hole in which the anti-new ecological and social popular union (NUPPES) voices could rush. “I agitated myself by playing a poor house of cards,” said Tanguy. Second suspension of the session, at the request of the RN. This time, the far -right deputies are more likely to join the conciliabule. They play on the “sensitive string”, in their words, that is to say the fear on the right of the abuse of tax control. The LR elected officials do not be softened, until the one proposes a rotating presidency between them, the RN and M. de Courson. On the phone, Marine Le Pen accepts the idea, which however lasts a long time.
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