It's 15:40 p.m. on Tuesday, December 19. The National Assembly has just learned that the Joint Committee (CMP) on the "immigration" text has reached an agreement. Marine Le Pen immediately arrives in the Salle des Quatre Colonnes, where a swarm of journalists gathers waiting for the epilogue of an interminable political soap opera. The frontist axe falls. The leader of the National Rally group announced that she and her 87 colleagues would vote in favour of the text.
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"It's a very small step", "a law that deserves neither an excess of praise nor an excess of opprobrium", says the MP (RN) of Pas-de-Calais. A stone's throw away from saying that by doing so, she would almost do the government a favor. When in fact it has just weighed down the text with lead. "We can still rejoice in an ideological victory for the National Rally since this law is now enshrined in this law as a national priority," Le Pen continued, echoing the priority given to the French over foreigners in obtaining certain social benefits.
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