The National Rally (RN) has for a long time not paid much attention to Emmanuel Macron. “A deposed republican monarch, who advances with his shirt open and a rope around his neck until the next dissolution”depicts Philippe Olivier, MEP and advisor to Marine Le Pen. “For our voters, the problem is not Michel Barnier, who is just a smokescreen. The problem is Emmanuel Macron”adds the deputy for Moselle Kévin Pfeffer, close to Jordan Bardella. An isolated head of state, lacking a majority, whom the far-right movement assumes to target through the fall of Michel Barnier, by associating, Wednesday, December 4, its votes with those of the left to bring down the government.
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By preparing to vote on the motion of censure, the RN is starting a countdown. “We will follow the normal functioning of the institutionsstated Marine Le Pen to the Monde Thursday November 28. If there is a government that falls, then a second, then a third, we will have to ask ourselves the question” constitutional options available to the President of the Republic. And to emphasize that, according to her, only resignation would make it possible to resolve the institutional crisis. Officially, Marine Le Pen « [se] beware of ranting ». But when asked if it would be preferable, in her opinion, for Emmanuel Macron not to finish his mandate, she replied: “Most certainly, of course. »
By giving in to the sirens of its popular electorate, who, for several months, have been calling for the head of Michel Barnier, the RN is learning to deal with its new responsibilities. As soon as its intention to vote for censure was announced, the party chaired by Jordan Bardella had to respond to warnings from the economic world about the risk of financial instability and to messages of incomprehension sent by several employer representatives. “A zone of turbulence” that Marine Le Pen's troops do not want to make worse by calling too loudly for Emmanuel Macron's mandate to be shortened.
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Several close to Marine Le Pen warn against the temptation of calling for resignation and plead to wait until the organization of new legislative elections in September. “We are not restlessjustifies Philippe Olivier. We will talk about it again the day when the call for resignation, which is starting to rise in our ranks and beyond, is massive. For now, it's up to Macron to get the hot potato [de la censure] and manage pressures. »
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