All of its nototalization strategy, the leader of the national rally wants to combat reform in the National Assembly and in the media, without encouraging the hardening of the conflict.
By Clément Guillou
Far from the pavement, the beach. Visiting Senegal, meeting French soldiers, agricultural businesses or political leaders, Marine Le Pen stands at a comfortable distance, Thursday, January 19, from the first day of mobilization against pension reform. The timing is unwelcome but not wanted; This first trip to Africa for six years was organized before knowing the starting point for the protest. However, he embodies the distance observed by the leader of the National Rally (RN), faithful to his credo, vis-à-vis the social movement: the demonstrations, very little for her.
Marine Le Pen has no words hard enough to denounce the pension reform led by the government. She finds her unfair, useless, sadly accounting, bad about it. She even sees it “from sadism, as in these children who tear the wings of flies”. However, to this reform adorned with all the vices, it seems to prepare only a quiet opposition.
No more than her, his troops will not descend into the street. “Not in our DNA”, we repeat within the party, pretending to forget the presence of the RN in the demonstrations against marriage for all, against medically assisted procreation, with the “yellow vests” or, more locally , against the distribution of exiles in rurality. The party could very quickly deny its congenital hostility to the processions, by going, Monday, January 23, alongside bakers: they will protest, before the Ministry of the Economy, against the cost of energy.
“We play the ballot boxes”
“It’s not just the street!”, Gets marine Le Pen, highlighting “media work to publicize the consequences of the reform”, another form of pedagogy than that of the government. Already, she advances her pawns: the supposed responsibility of the European Union; That of the left opposition, accused of having elected Emmanuel Macron; the slowdown in productivity, which complicates the financing of the pension system.
The deputy for Pas-de-Calais “wishes the success of everything that can make the government go back” while highlighting the ineffectiveness of the latest union mobilizations. She considers that the emergence of a national debate on the reform could tip the scale more effectively than a massive strike, but does not announce, for the time being, the meeting devoted to pensions, nor of local meetings – a Field work started by the new ecological and social popular union from January 10.
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