Compete, dislocate and then replace right. Marine Le Pen, for more than ten years, dreamed about it. The right itself did it. By largely absenting themselves from the National Assembly during the first week of the budget debate, the deputies of Les Républicains (LR), like those of the presidential coalition, left the National Rally (RN) alone against the left. The unexpected opportunity for the extreme right to play with the liberal bastions against the tax proposals defended by the other side of the National Assembly. What does it matter if the old National Front must, to do so, give in to the most flexible contortions?
After years of attacking the abolition of the solidarity tax on wealth or the “single tax”, intended to tax capital income less than labor income, the frontists saved these two milestones of ‘Emmanuel Macron’s fiscal policy. A programmatic turn that the RN group justifies by its attempt to seduce the liberal and business electorate that it still lacks. At the head of the party, Jordan Bardella only intends to reunite those who would have brought Nicolas Sarkozy to power in 2007, seducing “the patriotic bourgeoisie and the elite”to attach them to “popular classes” whom he considers has already joined Marine Le Pen. A week after these economic views, the former National Front intends to take advantage of its parliamentary space, on Thursday, October 31, to corner the right in the sovereigntist camp.
The first of the six legislative proposals defended by RN will refer to the repeal of the pension reform. But the party hopes to be able to dedicate only a quick and symbolic debate to it: after the social affairs commission emptied the text of its substance, on October 23, the president of the national assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, should, on Thursday, tomorrow, censor the amendments presented by the extreme right to restore the initial version.
“Absolute intransigence”
Deprived of this opportunity to challenge the left, Marine Le Pen and her troops will concentrate their forces on two historic promises of the right, placed second and fourth on the October 31 program (which also includes the end of the ban on rent properties). ). Two opportunities to confront his opponents and the government with his coherence, with the risk for the latter of offering unprecedented success to the RN.
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