The deputies of the National Assembly are preparing to study the motions of censure against Michel Barnier tabled by the left and the National Rally. If the RN should join the voices of the left to vote for it, this represents both a demonstration of strength from Marine Le Pen's party, but also places it in a position of excitement.
Within the National Rally party, we oscillate between satisfaction and excitement. Because if Marine Le Pen's party should join the left to vote for censorship, it is preparing to vote for a text that insults it.
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“The choice between two bad solutions”
The text carried by the New Popular Front to bring down Michel Barnier denounces “the vile obsessions of the extreme right”. However, it will be voted on by the RN this Wednesday evening, despite the trials of inconsistencies from the right and the majority. But to Emmanuel Macron's accusations of “unbearable cynicism”, MP Laurent Jacobelli responds with loyalty to his electorate.
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According to him, “it is not cynicism to respect the word given to your voters”. Before adding that they are not going to “vote on a text of the LFI” but rather “censorship against the government which wants to create 40 billion in additional taxes” and “which does not want to index pensions”.
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In fact, if Marine Le Pen won the standoff with Michel Barnier, in the ranks of the RN, some are worried about the outcome of this censorship while assuming to lay their cards on the table. A party executive confessed in this regard that they had “the choice between two bad solutions: betraying our voters or voting for censorship”. The party is therefore taking the gamble of being singled out as the main person responsible for a new political and institutional chaos.
