With ties or colored jackets, the 89 deputies of the National Rally display their emotion and their “seriousness” when they arrive on Wednesday at the National Assembly, playing the contrast with the “circus” imputed to Nupes or the “melon” reproached to the majority. “The culture package of noodles and football t-shirt, no thank you! I will leave that to François Ruffin and other zadistes of the LFI”, had warned their leader Marine Le Pen. “We must do our work as a deputy with dignity, respecting the Constitution, the Republic” and “behaving impeccably”.
The new far-right elected officials were therefore asked to come in tie, which was not the case on Tuesday with the deputies of the left alliance of Nupes. Surprise of the legislative elections, the RN obtained without a proportional vote or alliances a group of deputies ten times more numerous than in 2017.
The management of the RN wants the new elected officials to “fully participate in the activity” of the Palais-Bourbon and also be present in the field. Because it is a question of making forget the lack of assiduity of their predecessors and taking up the challenge of competence. The graduates were asked to get involved in the commissions to guide the novices there. Sébastien Chenu, spokesperson for the RN, is expected to run for vice-presidency of the National Assembly. Marine Le Pen should remain on the very sovereign Foreign Affairs Committee.
Among the new elected officials of the RN there are two samarians. Yaël Ménache, elected with 60% of the votes on Sunday in the fifth constituency and Jean-Philippe Tanguy, his colleague from the fourth constituency. The former deputy director of the presidential campaign of Marine Le Pen who admits to being moved. “Politics is above all convictions. Representing my fellow citizens is an adolescent ideal. When you arrive in the Assembly where Philippe Séguin and Charles Pasqua were, I can only be moved”