Can the National Rally chair a study group on anti-Semitism? The question sets fire to the powder in the Assembly.
It all started with a letter addressed to the deputies. The RN group in the Assembly has offered to chair a study group on anti-Semitism, prompting an outcry from mainstream and left-wing groups. In a table sent Wednesday, November 9 by the services of the National Assembly, we can discover two columns. On the left, the names of study groups, bodies where MPs work on very specific issues. On the right, the party proposed to chair each group. Thus, to chair a study group on anti-Semitism, deputies were able to see the initials RN, for National Rally.
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“Inconceivable, impossible“, for the left, which refers the party to its history. The majority denounces, it, a passage in force of the party now led by Jordan Bardella. However, the bottom of the story is clearer : this table distributed to the deputies is in fact a working document, and wrongly presented as final, established at the end of a first inconclusive meeting.
The far-right group of 89 deputies participated in this meeting on Tuesday on these structures bringing together parliamentarians on various themes for monitoring and follow-up work. Sébastien Chenu, vice-president RN, also in charge of study groups in the Assembly, has proposed that his party chair the one on anti-Semitism. What, participants protested.
The parties must meet next week to find an agreement, which will then be voted on by the office of the National Assembly. “No creation, no attribution is recorded before decision of the office of the Assembly“, thus reacted Wednesday the president of the Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet. The RN not being a majority, its candidacy has very little chance of succeeding.