The vice-president of the National Rally Sébastien Chenu compared the Republicans this Sunday to “operetta resistance fighters”, “who never show courage” and whose threat to overthrow the government on the immigration bill is just a “sketch”. Questioned on set Grand Jury (RTL-M6-Le Figaro) regarding the government’s text on immigration, examined from Monday in the Senate hemicycle, Sébastien Chenu mocked the LR “who are showing their muscles by saying: we are going to oppose it, we are going to submit a motion of censure” in the Assembly to try to bring down Élisabeth Borne.
But, underlined the deputy from the North, “the left, on the other side, says: ‘We will never vote on the motion of censure coming from the right'”, which would therefore annihilate its chances of seeing it succeed, lack of sufficient votes. “The deal is done, end of operations, end of the sketch. The Republicans are operetta resistance fighters,” quipped Sébastien Chenu. At the start of the week, PS boss Olivier Faure had actually indicated that he would not vote for an LR motion, “which would be a motion to go even further than what the government wants”. The rest of the left had not yet officially decided its position.
Maneuvers from the Elysée for the Europeans?
But for the deputy from the North, the Republicans, knowing that Emmanuel Macron could dissolve the Assembly in the event of the success of a motion of censure, “are above all infinitely afraid of going back to the voters”. “So they can table motions of censure when they know they will not be voted on. It’s even more beautiful when it’s useless, said Cyrano de Bergerac. It’s a bit like that with Les Républicains,” he added.
On the subject of the European elections next June, Sébastien Chenu also criticized the pro-hunting list currently in gestation, which according to him is “pushed behind the scenes by Emmanuel Macron” in order to try to “steal 1%” from the RN candidates. “What they are doing is creating marginal lists, constructed from scratch, in an office at the Élysée, saying to themselves that if it could steal 1% from Jordan Bardella and prevent him to make 30%, we would be happy. It won’t work,” said the deputy from the North, denouncing “manipulations”.
The president of the National Federation of Hunters, Willy Schraen, and lobbyist Thierry Coste, close to the head of state, have actually been working for several months to put together a pro-hunting list for the June 2024 election. Willy Schraen had postponed its final decision until November. Sébastien Chenu also judged “very realistic” the prospect for the RN list led by Jordan Bardella of reaching the 30% mark, in view of recent polls placing it around 28%, even if “nothing is ever played in advance.” In the last European elections in 2019, the list led by Jordan Bardella came first with 23.34% of the votes.