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True or false. Does the National Rally really defend the working classes?
True or false. Does the National Rally really defend the working classes?
(franceinfo)
The National Rally presents itself as the party which defends workers and the working classes. So, let’s look at the votes: is the RN still positioning itself in favor of the most precarious workers?
In the National Assembly, on pension reform, the parliamentarians of the National Rally were discreet, but voted against. They also supported the government’s law on purchasing power or the socialist bill on one-euro meals for students, which was ultimately rejected. But they also voted against several amendments brought by the left: the freezing of rents, the indexation of salaries to inflation, or the increase in the minimum wage to 1,500 euros.
Why this refusal to increase the minimum wage? According to Bruno Palier, research director of the CNRS at Sciences Po, this is explained by “another much more traditional part of the electorate which comes from the National Front: the shop, the small bosses, the artisan-merchants… They are in a contradiction of bringing together two types of electorate with contradictory interests on the question of work .” The National Rally presents itself as the party of the working classes but without necessarily supporting them with direct and automatic financial aid.
