For her parliamentary return, Marine Le Pen calls for a new dissolution

The political situation “cannot hold,” said Marine Le Pen on Saturday, calling for a new dissolution next year, when her group’s elected representatives return to the Assembly.

The president of the National Rally (RN) Jordan Bardella hoped that the RN deputies would in the meantime embody a “constructive” and “influential” opposition.

“We find ourselves in a system where the one who has the fewest votes is responsible for forming a government,” pointed out Ms Le Pen, in reference to the arrival of Michel Barnier from the ranks of LR, at Matignon. “This cannot hold,” “there are ten months left and I am convinced that at the end of these ten months, or in the spring or in the fall, there will be new legislative elections,” she developed.

“Let’s hope that this term will be as short as possible,” insisted the RN leader.

Although her party has been put back at the heart of the political game with the arrival of Mr Barnier at Matignon, under the constant threat of a joint motion of censure from the left and the RN, the head of the 126 deputies of the RN group nevertheless considered that the “great country that is France cannot function like this”.

A position that contrasts with that of Emmanuel Macron, who has made it known that he does not wish to dissolve the National Assembly again before the end of his term at the Elysée.

Mr Macron cannot pronounce the dissolution of the Assembly “within the year following” the last legislative elections, called following his decision to dissolve this chamber on the evening of the last European elections, on June 9.

Speaking before Ms Le Pen, Mr Bardella called on RN parliamentarians to become “essential”.

“We must remain a constructive opposition whose only compass is the interest of the country and the interest of the French people,” maintained the president of the RN, while calling on his troops to “cross a new threshold and become an influential opposition.”

“Your role is (…) to win victories everywhere for everyday life as well as for the sovereign,” he said.

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