The announcement created astonishment among the deputies of the National Assembly. Unprecedented, the presidency of the France-Morocco friendship group should return to the National Rally. “It’s an agreement between the Renaissance and RN groups,” declared Mathieu Lefèvre. The Macronist MP negotiated directly with the far-right MP Laurent Jacobelli, a source within the French Parliament tells us.
The two parties, who have been playing “I love you, me neither” since the immigration law at the end of 2023, have decided to share the parliamentary friendship groups. The one with Morocco is the most coveted, our source explains. “Once the distribution has been made, it is up to the designated party to choose the deputy who will chair the friendship group on the French side. If the RN obtains the presidency of the France-Morocco group, it is likely to see Marine Le Pen or Sébastien Chenu propelled to its head,” she specifies, worried about the fate of this friendship group essential for the work of diplomacy. parliamentary between the two countries.
Indeed, there is a great risk of seeing security issues and the immigration issue (two themes dear to the far right) crowding out other important subjects for Moroccans in France and their families.
This alignment with the RN’s campaign themes would be worsened by the withdrawal of deputies from other parliamentary groups. Indeed, “when a friendship group is chaired by the RN, the other parties prefer to desert it,” our source explains to us. Thus, the work of the France-Morocco friendship group, so essential in the past, could see itself emptied of its substance. A shame since President Macron had insisted on parliamentary diplomacy between Rabat and Paris during his official visit to Morocco. What does Yaël Braun-Pivet, president of the National Assembly, currently visiting Morocco, think?
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