Expulsions of foreign delinquents, pension reform… The RN pushed political markers on Thursday in its day reserved for the Assembly, the opportunity to attack its adversaries on the left and right or even to pique the government, without however achieve legislative success.
If the group chaired by Marine Le Pen has significantly increased in number (125 deputies), they have not managed to achieve a parliamentary victory, despite the support of the Republican Right group (ex-LR) for certain measures aligned with the his on the regalian.
“See you at the next elections,” repeated several elected officials from the far-right group, which had started its “niche” 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 an “unfair, useless” reform, and castigated “the sectarianism of the left”, who did not wish to support his text in committee, as much as the “stubbornness” of the Macronists who made them the “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” of November 28. “We will discuss a real repeal reform (…) which you have never fought,” promised Anaïs Belouassa-Cherifi (LFI).
Accusing the left of “betraying (its) voters”, Marine Le Pen assured that her group would, on the contrary, vote for the LFI text.
– Heated debate on expulsions –
In the process, a proposed RN law on the expulsions of delinquent foreigners was rejected, in an electric atmosphere.
“No, immigration is not an opportunity,” said RN deputy Lionel Tivoli, before pointing out the dangers, according to him, of “massive immigration” 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 luck or bad luck for France: it is the history of France”.
“Disordered, massive, irrational, out of control immigration is a problem and obviously you know it,” Marine Le Pen then declared, against a backdrop of anathemas between the left and the RN.
The text by Edwige Diaz, withdrawn after its key article was deleted, intended in particular to systematize the expulsions of foreigners for certain crimes or offenses “punishable by a sentence of at least three years of imprisonment”, and to delete a number of protection regimes against evictions.
– Minister between two fires –
Nicolas Daragon, Minister Delegate in charge of Daily Security, partly gave the RN “right” in its observation: “the foreigner who murders outside, the foreigner who rapes outside (…); the foreign thief, stalker, aggressor three times outside”, he continued, spinning an anaphora applauded by the RN, but which caused tension in the Macronist-LR government coalition.
“We asked ourselves the question of whether it was the common base that was speaking or if you represented another political color,” launched Ludovic Mendes.
The minister, however, opposed the substance, judging the text inoperative, counterproductive for the prefects, and contrary to the Constitution.
Marine Le Pen, for her part, pointed to ), MoDem and Liot (independent centrists).
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 to “give meaning back 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”.
The minister also defended a “criminal justice” which “has gained in efficiency” in around fifteen years, and argued that minimum sentences have “had no impact on reducing the risk of reoffending”.
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