The National Rally (RN) deputy for Gard Emmanuel Taché de la Pagerie admits this himself. He was surely a little optimistic, and also “naive” when he arrived in committee last week. He thinks that the proposed law that he is defending, and which will be presented during the RN parliamentary niche this Thursday, October 12, can create a transpartisan political consensus. The subject, the recognition of endometriosis as a long-term condition, lends itself to this. Alas, his initiative was rejected. And she has a very good chance of suffering the same fate in the Hemicycle. Blame it on the “sectarianism” of other political groups, he says.
The RN sees its hopes of passing – for the first time – a bill disappear. Marine Le Pen and her deputies had nevertheless done everything to provoke the necessary transpartisan vote. The choice of the six legal texts and the proposed resolution had been designed for. In addition to endometriosis, the suspension of family allowances for “parents of criminal children”, the ban on inclusive writing or even the strengthening of “controls of minority declarations of foreigners” must have been quite attractive to other political forces. to break the political dike around the RN.
In the crosshairs of Marine Le Pen’s lieutenants: Éric Ciotti’s Republicans, but also the MoDem and Horizons groups. “The latter have always behaved constructively with us,” noted a close friend of the leader of the RN deputies.
Except that everything didn’t go as planned. With their six texts, the Frontist deputies created debate within the presidential camp. On endometriosis, the majority group, Renaissance, has long wondered about the posture to adopt. Before deciding: he will vote against this text, an “opportunistic” proposal according to Aurélien Rousseau, the Minister of Health.
Even the deputies of Édouard Philippe’s group, although open to judging each initiative of the National Rally without opposing a “no” in principle, will ultimately not vote for any of the frontist texts. “The subjects of this niche, we approached them in depth. The problem is that the RN focused on communication and posture to the detriment of the rest. Their proposals are poorly worked out, they hit the mark,” criticizes Horizons MP Frédéric Valletoux.
If the president of the LR group, Olivier Marleix, announced in the columns of Le Figaro that his deputies would vote for three of the National Rally’s legislative proposals, their vote will probably not be enough to give a chance to just one of the Marinist group’s initiatives. Especially since within the LR group, many plan to “skip” the session. “I have better things to do than waste a day in a niche with no issues,” jokes one of them. The RN deputies will be present until the end.
