The will of the extreme right party to take the presidency of the study group on anti -Semitism in the National Assembly has been reflected its concern, since the 1980s, to get rid of the accusations of anti -Semitism. Without never clearly taking its distance from its past.
by Clément Guillou
“There will always be the need to move away from this story. The presidency of this study group would obviously be a decisive element.” Louis Aliot, first vice-president of the National Rally (RN), n ‘In fact not mystery: if the far -right party has primarily erected the presidency of the study group on anti -Semitism in the National Assembly, it is that the long history of anti -Semitic and negationists of its leaders glue to the skin. The mayor of Perpignan has always considered him as a “lock” towards the conquest of power: “Even if we consider, we, that there is no problem on this point, the fact remains that our opponents will always come back to that. “
The revelation on Wednesday November 9 by RCJ radio, of a provisional list of allocation of the presidency of study groups, aroused an uproar. The Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF) denounced “an unacceptable nonsense and manipulation”. Nothing definitive, hastened to correct the president (Renaissance) of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet; During a conciliation meeting, on November 16, the rest of the groups of the National Assembly will make sure to recover the presidency of this transpartisan structure, responsible for monitoring and monitoring work.
But the episode recalls that the RN will not leave, in the National Assembly, to escape any opportunity to ripoliner its image. “We take what we are entitled to,” retorts Renaud Labaye, the general secretary of the group. That Renaissance did not preempt this study group, when it had the first two choices, does not let it be surprised: the RN had not made mystery of its interest in the theme, just as it had claimed, in vain, the presidency of the parliamentary friendship group with Israel. “It has become a political issue, so it becomes an issue for Renaissance, Analysis Renaud Labaye. But I remember that for them, anti -Semitism is secondary compared to video games”, the second choice of Renaissance behind “hunting and fishing “.
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In the 1980s, the National Front, co-founded by former collaborationists and members of the Waffen-SS, had already tried a rapprochement with the Jewish community, before the case of “detail”, several times repeated by Jean-Marie Le Pen. In the 1990s, the number two of the party, Bruno Mégret, had again made it a central axis of the first attempt to “dediabolize”.
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