• The National Rally will present its first parliamentary niche in the hemicycle next Thursday.

  • For one day, RN deputies will have the opportunity to present their own bills.

  • The opportunity for Marine Le Pen's group to defend elements of their program, but also to try to put their opponents in difficulty.

This is a new “first” for Marine Le Pen and her colleagues at the Palais Bourbon.

The National Rally will present its niche in the hemicycle next Thursday.

This system allows, once a month, a parliamentary group to defend its own bills to the rest of the national representation.

For several weeks, the party has therefore been thinking about how best to approach this January 12 and derive maximum political benefits from it.

RN deputies want to take advantage of this showcase in the Assembly to make their voices heard, but, and perhaps above all, to try to put their opponents in difficulty.

“We have the right to be skillful”

“We thought about the choice of themes.

Because our objective is to pass a text, even if we know that it is very complicated during parliamentary niches, ”assures Sébastien Chenu, deputy for the North.

“We opted for subjects that can attract the support of other groups to see if they are sincere or if they remain in political tactics”, adds the vice-president of the National Assembly.

For its niche, the RN has thus set aside its traditional fetishes, such as the migration question or Islamism.

Nothing about national preference either.

Jordan Bardella's party has instead opted for themes that it considers more "consensual".

During the presentation press conference in early December, Marine Le Pen launched the battle by attempting a first tactical move.

“I chose to register two texts whose authors are not members of our group, in coherence with the logic of national union that I defend”, launched the patron saint of elected RN, evoking the text of Caroline Fiat, aimed at reintegrating non-vaccinated caregivers, whom the LFI deputy had not had time to defend until her term, and that of an elected UDI offering emergency aid for victims of domestic violence.

“The texts were there, it was logical to take them back,” assumes Jean-Philippe Tanguy, RN deputy for the Somme.

The objective is clear: to compel their adversaries to offer them a parliamentary victory.

“There is no trap,

“They are trolls”

The first harvest of the offensive turned out to be rather meager.

After accepting the “offering”, Caroline Fiat finally backed down by withdrawing her text, after a few hours of turmoil within LFI.

On domestic violence, the majority also did not wish to give the RN an update on this theme, declared "great cause of the quinquennium".

The bill was therefore finally placed at the top of the agenda for the “Assembly week” of January 16, with the agreement of the RN.

“Without us, the text would have been forgotten, we dug it up, so it remains a victory”, claims Jean-Philippe Tanguy.

"On the caregivers, the rebellious have shown their sectarianism, they will have to explain themselves to their constituents," he adds.



This Thursday, RN deputies will first defend a proposal aimed at “encouraging companies to increase net wages by 10%”, via a freeze on employer contributions, but also the abolition of “low emission zones” (ZFE).

But RN elected officials have not given up on the idea of ​​trapping other groups, since they will also present a text to make it compulsory to wear a uniform in public schools and colleges, defended by the right, as well as the introduction of proportional representation in legislative elections.

A measure desired by… Emmanuel Macron during the previous campaign, and strongly demanded by François Bayrou and the MoDem.

“They're trolls, it's all show, without serious work or backbone.

They are trying to trap us but we will not let it go, "sweeps Erwan Balanant,

Already rejected in committee in December, the RN's bills have almost no chance of being voted on next Thursday.

"Even if we offered them Macron's perlimpinpin powder, they would be against it," sighs Jean-Philippe Tanguy.

Despite attempts at destabilization, this niche seems rather to show that the RN is still not a party like the others for the rest of the hemicycle.

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  • Marine Le Pen

  • National Assembly

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  • La France Insoumise (LFI)