Editorial. Who is bringing up the National Rally, the left or the majority?

The day after the rejection of the immigration bill by the National Assembly, Élisabeth Borne denounced Tuesday, December 12 “the sacred union” between the Nupes and the National Rally. A “unnatural alliance”an attitude “irresponsible”, thundered the Prime Minister. Élisabeth Borne accused the rebellious Mathilde Panot, the socialist Boris Vallaud and the ecologist Cyrielle Châtelain of having “betrayed their beliefs” to ally with the far right. An expected outraged reaction, and arithmetically justified. It is this alliance of opposites that got the better of Gérald Darmanin’s text. The same coalition almost adopted a motion of censure in the spring to bring down the government.

The left therefore no longer hesitates to mix its voices with the RN and thus participates in the trivialization of the extreme right. Within the Nupes, the Insoumis win the prize for cynicism. They are voting with the RN even though barely a month ago, they had used the presence of Lepenist elected officials in the street as an excuse not to demonstrate against anti-Semitism.

A lesson in cynicism

The National Rally is no less cynical. He did even worse since, unlike the right, he had not tabled a rejection motion and voted for that of the environmentalists who denounced a repressive bill inspired by the RN. Quite a feat! The far right has long denounced “shenanigans” parliamentarians ready to betray their voters with their votes for political calculations. At the head of a group of 88 deputies, Marine Le Pen has become the most skilled of the maneuvers since June 2022. She even taught a lesson to Gérald Darmanin who used old tricks and multiplied promises and pressure of all kinds to try to seduce the right-wing deputies one by one. In vain.

Who is driving the RN, the majority or the opposition? Everyone. The executive because of its failures, particularly on security, and its desire to exploit the National Rally to embarrass the left and LR. The right by its compromises and its twinship with the extreme right on sovereign subjects. And the left when its exacerbated anti-macronism leads it to vote with the RN deputies, even if it means causing chaos which only benefits the Lepenists.

For 18 months, the majority and the Nupes have been engaged in fistfights, accusing each other of serving the extreme right, and neglecting to fight it. Marine Le Pen just has to count the points while watching her opponents roll out the red carpet for her towards the Élysée in 2027.