There is no question for the RN of leaving Emmanuel Macron free after this parliamentary coup. The day after historic censorship, Michel Barnier presented his resignation on Thursday, December 5 to Emmanuel Macron, who is expected on television at 8 p.m., in an attempt to set a course as a political period of rare uncertainty begins. .
Michel Barnier, overthrown on Wednesday evening by 331 deputies, notably from the RN and the NFP, now holds the unenviable record for brevity in Matignon under the Fifth Republic. And for the National Rally, the objective is clear: maintain pressure on the President of the Republic.
The party thus wants to have its “say“on the name of the new tenant of Matignon.”But of course we will have our say! Today, Marine Le Pen is essential in the political game: she is centralestimates Laurent Jacobelli, spokesperson for the party. No government can exist without the benevolence of the National Rally. 11 million French people who voted for us, that counts. Without us, no government can stand.“
The RN already sets its conditions: no left-wing Prime Minister, nor any personality who is too critical of Marine Le Pen. On the right, Xavier Bertrand disappears from the list, just like François Baroin. On the other hand, two names seem to be favored by the National Rally: the resigning Minister of the Armed Forces Sébastien Lecornu and the boss of Modem François Bayrou. “Neither of these two prime ministers has made contemptuous remarks against usjustifies a close friend of Marine Le Pen. And both are listening“Qualities also attributed to Michel Barnier by the RN three months ago. And yet…
But that doesn't matter: having a right of oversight over the new Prime Minister is even more assumed by Marine Le Pen's troops than last September, when Emmanuel Macron was desperately looking for a Prime Minister who could resist censorship. And Laurent Jacobelli summarizes the conditions of the RN for the future named: “No left, no contempt and a project that is in line with that of the RN“. Otherwise, it will be censorship…
The question of political strategy remains: will this sequence not, one day, turn against the National Rally? In the corridors of the Assembly, none of the RN deputies subscribe to this theory. On the contrary. “The voters don't care, said one of them. In the minds of the French, the person responsible for the disorder is Emmanuel Macron.”
The leaders of the National Rally are betting that this censorship, which they have in fact triggered, will put them back at the center of the political game. “The next government will be forced to work with us, boasts a deputybecause now everyone knows that we can carry out our threats.“
Marine Le Pen even thinks that she will be involved in future budgetary discussions. “We will co-construct – not only with the National Rally, with all the forces present in the National Assembly – a budget which is acceptable to all, and it is this budget which will apply to the French“, she explained to 8 p.m. on TF1, shortly after the vote of censure in the Barnier government.
However, the time when the far-right party refused any negotiations with those in power is not that long ago. During the previous legislature, just before the dissolution, Marine Le Pen never stopped denouncing the backroom negotiations, the apparatus agreements between the LR at the time and the government, particularly at the time of pension reform. Except that in recent days, Marine Le Pen has done, willy-nilly, the same thing, by agreeing to discuss and negotiate – even if many in the RN still refute this term – with Michel Barnier.
A new shift, therefore, in the strategy of the National Rally which deviates from its line of order and respect for institutions to better make itself essential. Even if it means provoking a new political and financial crisis.
