Symbolic victory for Le Pen!/ For the first time, the French National Assembly voted in favor of a proposal from her party
The French National Assembly approved on Thursday for the first time in its history a text presented by Marine Le Pen’s National Rally….
The French National Assembly approved on Thursday for the first time in its history a text presented by Marine Le Pen’s National Rally. Although by a single vote, lawmakers adopted a non-binding resolution calling on the government to repeal a 1968 agreement with Algeria that facilitated Algerian immigration to France.
185 deputies from the Right and Center voted in favor (including 17 deputies from Horizons, the center-right party of former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe) and 184 deputies, mainly from the Left, voted against. In the past, Macron’s party leader, Gabriel Attal, has also called for the deal to be scrapped, amid rising tensions between France and Algeria.
Attal was absent from Thursday’s vote, and only 30 of Macron’s 92 lawmakers voted against the text. The rest were absent. The vote in favor raises questions about the risk of normalizing the far-right party.
It is, however, an important symbolic victory for Le Pen’s party, which has until now been isolated from center-left and far-left lawmakers by the so-called “sanitary zone,” an unwritten rule that prevents them from collaborating with the far-right.