The National Rally fails in the National Assembly to have the slightest text of its niche adopted

ASSEMBLY – Not one, not two, not three. The surprise is minimal but the result is very real. The National Rally has certainly advanced its pawns and pushed its markers into the hemicycle but its parliamentary niche ended Thursday, October 31 in a triple failure?

On the occasion of this day during which an opposition group can put its texts on the agenda of the National Assembly, Marine Le Pen intended to put her adversaries on the defensive by proposing texts compatible with the ideas of the left or right. But none was adopted, illustrating once again the isolation of the far right despite the fact that it emerged from the early legislative elections in July.

“See you at the next elections”repeated several elected officials from the far-right group during the day of debates.

Pension reform still stands

They started with a proposal to repeal the pension reform, emptied of its substance in committee. The RN saw its reinstatement amendments rejected by the President of the Assembly due to their cost to public finances, but still defended its amputated text at length.

Rapporteur Thomas Ménage attacked a reform “unfair, unnecessary”and castigated “the sectarianism of the left”who did not wish to support his text in committee, as much as “stubbornness” Macronists who made them “short scale” to torpedo it.

Engaged in a standoff with the RN to appear as the best fighter for reform, the NFP will defend its text in the « LFI niche » from November 28. “We will discuss a real repeal reform (…) which you have never fought”promised Anaïs Belouassa-Cherifi (LFI). Accusing the left of “betray (his) voters”Marine Le Pen assured that her group would, on the contrary, vote for the LFI text.

“Immigration is not an opportunity”

In the process, a proposed RN law on the expulsions of delinquent foreigners was rejected (without a formal vote), in an electric atmosphere. “No, immigration is not an opportunity”launched the RN deputy Lionel Tivoli, before pointing out the dangers according to him of a « immigration massive » In France.

“Am I not an opportunity for France by being here in front of you? »retorted Ayda Hadizadeh, PS MP, daughter of Iranian exiles. And Ludovic Mendes, Macronist MP of Portuguese origin, continued: “immigration does not have to be good or bad luck for France: it is the history of France”.

“Disorderly, massive, irrational, out of control immigration is a problem and obviously you know it”then declared Marine Le Pen, against a backdrop of anathemas between the left and the RN. Edwige Diaz's text was finally removed after its key article was deleted. The three-time far-right presidential candidate attacked Nicolas Daragon, Minister Delegate in charge of Daily Security in favor of the deletion amendments adopted with the votes of the left.

No further votes on the other two texts

At the start of the evening the RN also withdrew its text to remove the energy performance diagnostic criterion for the rental of housing, emptied of its purpose by a coalition ranging from the left to the Macronists.

At midnight, the debates were interrupted in the middle of the examination of a text by Pascale Bordes, aimed at establishing a new version of the minimum sentences introduced under Nicolas Sarkozy and repealed under François Hollande. A way of “give meaning to pain”according to its author. Minister of Justice Didier Migaud criticized an unconstitutional text, maintaining that it would apply as it stands “to non-recidivist minors”.

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