Marine Le Pen accused the majority on Wednesday June 29 of wanting to make a “political diversion” with his proposal to include the right to abortion in the Constitution, while specifying that the RN has “never questioned access to abortion“.
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“The reality is that En Marche is making a political diversion because it does not want the focus to be on the main concerns of French people today and their difficulties, which is purchasing power, which is security, which is immigration out of control“, denounced on franceinfo the president of the National Rally group in the National Assembly, considering that”the right to abortion is not questioned by anyone“.
Asked about the positions of several RN deputies comparing abortion to genocide, Marine Le Pen replied: “There is a political movement, this political movement determines a political line which is voted on by the members, I have been carrying it for 10 years” and “the line of the movement is very clear: we have never questioned access to abortion“. “Everyone can have their opinion on subjects which are sensitive subjects, subjects of society, which I have always said, moreover, that they should be settled by referendum.“, continued Marine Le Pen. “That there are people who are not happy to see that there are still 200,000 abortions a year in France is not open to criticism, no one can be happy about that“, she added.
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“Freedom to vote” for RN deputies in the event of a referendum
A constitutional revision on the subject? “Why not? But if we open a constitutional revision, we have a lot to put into it, we will want to integrate the rights of foreigners, we will want to integrate the abolition of the right of the land, we will want to integrate the modification of the conditions of access to nationality French, we would like to integrate the superiority of the Constitution over international texts“, replied the deputy of Pas-de-Calais. In an interview with the newspaper Le Figaro published on Wednesday, Marine Le Pen specifies that if there were to be a vote in Parliament, she would leave to the elected RN “in the Hemicycle a freedom to vote. Even though I know that the quasi-unanimity of the deputies will vote on the line of the movement“, she adds.
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The Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, went on Wednesday to the headquarters of Family Planning, to recall “the importance of protecting the right and access to abortion in France“, three days after the announcement of a bill to enshrine it in the Constitution, in reaction to the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States to torpedo this right.
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