What’s in a Tie? Ask France’s National Assembly
By refusing to put on the costume of their job, the far-Left deputies are only embodying the most mediocre individualism, which triumphs everywhere else and against which they claim to fight.
By refusing to put on the costume of their job, the far-Left deputies are only embodying the most mediocre individualism, which triumphs everywhere else and against which they claim to fight.
A few days ago, France commemorated the 80th anniversary of the Vel d’Hiv round-up. Since the end of World War II, the subject has been very sensitive politically because it raises the question of France’s complicity in Hilter’s genocidal agenda.
The symbolism of this vote is obvious: it is the first time since the beginning of the pandemic that the government faced major opposition on its health policy in the National Assembly.
Never before has the national Right achieved such a result in France, to the point of surpassing the governmental Right. New perspectives are opening up for the party founded by Jean-Marie Le Pen.
Due to its recent electoral success, Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National can legitimately claim the presidency of the Finance Committee. After the presidency and vice-presidency of the Assembly, this is the most important office in the French legislature.
Shortly after some 3,000 people gathered in front of the National Assembly last Wednesday in Sofia, tempers flared, and demonstrators—comprised heavily of supporters of the irredentist-nationalist Revival party—clashed with police and stormed towards the parliament, coming just several meters away from the main entrance.