Why Marine Le Pen tried to have the last word on pensions

There was no suspense: the motion of censure of the National Rally, which he intended to transform into a “parliamentary referendum”, was rejected late at night from Friday 17 to Saturday 18 February. Nobody outside his parliamentary group followed Marine Le Pen – who spoke in front of a half-empty hemicycle.

La Nupes, with the exception of the Communists, had just left the premises. Singing, before leaving, ” we are here, we are here “, the refrain of processions. As a foretaste of the blocking of the country that she calls for on March 7? The mess offered the RN a last act that even the double finalist in the presidential election would not have imagined in her most beautiful dreams of normalization: there she is, she and her group, alongside the majority and the president of the National Assembly responding with a ” Marseillaise “.

A few minutes later, Marine Le Pen, at the podium, denounced both the ” Assumed blocking of the Nupes ( “ brutalities, threats and insults, so many defilements that have become habitual “) And ” denial of democracy of the majority and the government. ” The National Rally waits wisely, lurking in the shadows and at the 25th hour, it emerges to put itself back at the center of the democratic game (…) You advance masked hoping that the discussion will damage the image of our institutions. You wait until the debate is held to attack, manipulate, recover “, will answer the First