Joining the New Popular Front against the Prime Minister also means taking the risk of losing a minority but decisive share of the right-wing electorate for the president of the RN group.
In France, there is an intangible political rule: the right in power is rarely right-wing, the left in charge is always left-wing. To put it another way, with the right we are often disappointed, with the left we never are. It is always moving towards new taxes, new regularizations of illegal immigrants, new societal demands, new hiring of civil servants.
Michel Barnier, by multiplying taxes, by resurrecting the end-of-life law as a first emergency, sometimes gives the impression of wanting to compete with the socialists, but, fortunately, his old political background wins: the Minister of Interior holds the line firmly, the Minister of the Civil Service is not afraid of his shadow and we find in the myriad of delegate ministers and secretaries of state figures who defend the colors of the flag, the virtues of effort and merit, the treasure of work.
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