What is the line of the National Rally (RN) on the reform of active solidarity income (RSA)? Marine Le Pen’s party voted against the bill for full employment, adopted in the National Assembly, Tuesday October 10. But, at the end of the debates, the ambiguity remains. And for good reason, as Jocelyn Dessigny, the person responsible for the text for the far-right movement, puts it bluntly: “There is no general philosophy. We reason pragmatically on the values of justice and common sense. »
In fact, the RN weakly opposed the tightening of access to the RSA, desired by the presidential majority and reinforced by The Republicans (LR). The group was barely heard, as Marine Le Pen holds, on this subject, a position far from the expectations of her own electorate. For the rapporteur of the “full employment” text, Horizons MP Paul Christophe, the Lepéniste troops applied their favorite strategy: “The less I say, the more I prosper”with “a consensual discourse on certain points, absent on others, and technically weak”. However, a departure from the road was noted when Mr. Designigny stated that a “ stay-at-home mom might be better off at home taking care of her kids (…) if she wishes.”
On the RSA, the RN has sometimes aligned itself with the left, to denounce the guilt of recipients, sometimes with the right, to criticize the supposed level of fraud. “It’s a catch-all speechanalyzes the socialist Arthur Delaporte. Depending on the angle you look at it from, it’s the FN [Front national, l’ancien nom du RN] popular who defends people who live on little; the nationalist FN which defends national preference; without forgetting the old-fashioned FN which keeps women at home. This makes the overall discourse illegible but sectorally acceptable. And it’s a way to go under the radar. »
“We are against the war of the poor”
In detail, the RN voted against article 2 of the bill, which imposes a minimum of fifteen hours of weekly activity on recipients. But abstained on article 3, which toughens the sanctions for failure to respect the “reciprocal commitment contract”, while data from the National Family Allowance Fund (CNAF) suggests that these sanctions further alienate the market work. That the general public seems to be disinterested in this reform and the positions of her party suits Marine Le Pen well.
Since taking power in the FN in 2011, Mme Le Pen, who made Hénin-Beaumont (Pas-de-Calais) his electoral stronghold, refuses to point the finger at the beneficiaries of RSA. The question was the subject of recurring quarrels with her niece, the former member of parliament for Vaucluse, Marion Maréchal, between 2012 and 2017. She had to remind her position, Tuesday October 3, to her troops at the National Assembly, during a long clarification: “We are against the war on the poor. » Translation, by Jean-Philippe Tanguy, deputy and number two of the RN group: “The minimum wage is not unhappy because of the RMiste [bénéficiaire du RMI, l’ancêtre du RSA] and no one lives permanently with an RSA. We rarely use the notion of “assistance”. Marine’s position on this subject has always been courageous, she has not given in. »
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