Eleven days after the second round legislative elections, far right has become more institutionalized in the Assembly.
It has become a popular social media gag or what many internet users call a “meme”. Internet users can see Marc, the character from Canal’s “La Flamme”, who uses language elements to avoid answering questions. Marc explains the situation without blinking. Instead of stating that the decision has not yet been made or refusing to communicate it, we agree to do so.
This parallel was created during the winter 2021, in the middle the second wave Covid-19. The confined French people and disoriented media tried for days to figure out the direction in which the presidential arbitrations regarding the health crisis would take them. Although the television journalists were skilled at cooking the members of the government, nothing was clear before Emmanuel Macron’s intervention in person.
It was during this time that we saw the rise of real knowledge in the camp of President. These include formulas that don’t provide any information about anything, such as “we aren’t closing any doors”, “nothing can be excluded” or “we are considering all”, which Gabriel Attal, the then-government spokesperson, had made a speciality of. Emmanuel Macron’s close friends have not lost sight of this whole art. It was evident, for instance, during the presidential campaign. This was during the period in which the head of state appeared to be a candidate, even though he had not declared himself.
The news gives the macronie an opportunity to use his favorite rhetoric again. Tuesday, July 5th is the day that the Prime Minister will deliver her general policy speech. It can then ask the deputies for a vote to confirm their support for the political orientations and laws being submitted. This is a voluntary procedure, which Jean Castex, Edouard Philippe and Emmanuel Macron in 2017 had lent their support. The context was different. La Republique en Marche, along with its allies, had an absolute majority of the Hemicycle at that time. This is not the case anymore.
If Elisabeth Borne asks for a vote in confidence from the deputies and does not receive a majority, her government will automatically be forced to resign under Article 50 of the Constitution. The current state makes this a risky approach. Unless Emmanuel Macron takes it to form a new government as part of a coalition or cohabitation with Les Republicains to gain with them a majority at Parliament. This hypothesis has been rejected by the executive.
Marc du Flambeau wouldn’t deny the vagueness. Stanislas Guerini, BFMTV’s Wednesday host, stated that Elisabeth Borne would make her decision only after having had discussions with all the presidents of the various groups. opposition. Olivia Gregoire, the spokesperson for the government, also stated that “No door is shut” and that no decision was made.
Wednesday was a hot day at Palais-Bourbon for the designations of key positions in the office of Hemicycle. Nupes, the New Popular Ecological and Social Union, has always denounced any agreement between the presidential camp and the Republicans to degrade the rights of the left. Even though such negotiations are unlikely to have been established, this is a fact: Helene Laporte and RN Sebastien Chénu were elected vice-presidents in the Assembly. These positions were made possible by the votes of the LR and macronie. The extreme right has only 89 and the right 62 deputies respectively, as the scores of the two RN deputies was 290 and 284 votes, respectively.
They are joined by the designated vice-presidents, the deputy Horizons Naima Motchou, Elodie Jacquier Laforge, the socialist deputy Valerie Rabault and Caroline Fiat, who are also designated vice-presidents. The argument used by Emmanuel Macron’s troops, and his allies? According to Aurore Berge, president of the Renaissance group, it would be important to respect the balances of power and power in the Assembly.
This position was strongly condemned by the left, notably Raphael Glucksmann who emphasized that the European Parliament still has a sanitary cordon, which prevents the far right from obtaining positions.
La Nupes didn’t get any of the three quaestor posts, to the advantage of Eric Ciotti, the LR deputy in the Alpes-Maritimes Eric Ciotti and Marie Guevenoux (renaissance deputy Marie Guevenoux), while the former LR was transferred into macronie Eric Woerth.
On Tuesday, you were already informed why the National Rally boss was so embarrassed by the debate about the Constitution’s inclusion of the right of abortion. Opting it would be to tarnish her image as a feminist. However, it is difficult to follow it since the majority of RN members in Parliament are staunch opponents of abortion. Marine Le Pen, after initially answering “why not” to “World”, now changes strategy and denounces “political diversion”.
“The question is, are we the 51st State of the United States?” What does the United States Supreme Court’s decision on France challenge? When no major party is challenging access to abortion for women, how does it affect us? […] It’s called into doubt by Islamism. It’s called into doubt by the veil. It is called into disrepute by Islamists refusing equality between men, women.” she said on Franceinfo Wednesday.
Two birds, one stone. The former far-right presidential candidate avoids discussing the substance of the topic and directs it to his hobbyhorse, the fight against Islamists. Because the Constitution does not include the right of abortion, it is ineffective. It is threatened in France by the Islamists. Did you follow?
The Assembly’s youngest members are Tematai and Louis Le Gayic, both 21 years old. Even though it is the elected representative from the first Polynesia constituency, Louis Boyard, 21, holds the record for the youngest deputy elected under Fifth Republic.
Both were called upon to serve as assessors during Tuesday’s election of Yael BraunPivet, President of the National Assembly. Louis Boyard caused controversy by refusing to shake hands and meet far-right deputies. The young man, who entered politics via student unionism, wanted to make himself clear to journalists on Wednesday. .
“Many of us know that we are facing a pandemic and must take precautions. Pandemic of racism and anti-Semitism. I urge the French people and especially the President of France to refrain from shaking hands with the National rally. A question I have is: How can something that was unusual twenty years ago become commonplace today? Where are the statemen and women like Simone Veil and Jacques Chirac who said, “Compromise not with racism or anti-Semitism.” Where are journalists who were able to distance themselves from the far right’s triumph? My point of view is that I am still true to my principles. In the face of National Rally, I respect barricade gestures.
