World News: National Rally Bill Survives Vote
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- Category: Haute This Issue
- Published on Tuesday, 04 November 2025 06:47
- Written by Olivier Longhi
The national representation, by passing the bill proposed by the National Rally, has presented the image of an assembly porous to far-right ideas, locked in passivity and concerned with sterile struggles for influence than the defense of republic's principles.
After adopting a bill proposed by the National Rally, the National Assembly woke up somewhat stunned. And for good reason, it was the first time that the national representation had adopted a law designed and proposed by the far-right movement.
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In absolute terms, a law remains a law and any political party in the hemicycle has the right to draw up a text aimed at being adopted. But in this case, it is the entire symbolic scope of the text, both from an intrinsic point of view and from the party that presented it, that raises questions. The voted text (which will not be effective until the implementing decrees are promulgated) concerns the abolition of the facilities, in force since the 1968 agreements between France and Algeria, for Algerian workers in terms of access to employment. Why then are there so many questions about this voted text?
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Agreement and Porosity
In the first place, was it really necessary and urgent to reconsider this aspect of the bi-party agreement? The National Rally, which has made the fight against a supposed, illusory and unfounded wave of migration from North Africa, a permanent fight, now feeds the feeling that one of its favorite themes has been heard and accepted by the national representation.
Does this mean that the ideas of the National Rally are infusing an assembly that is increasingly porous to right-wing extremism? It will be up to each of us to answer this question, but the fact remains that this political victory allows Marine Le Pen's movement to perorate by posing as a defender of national interests. It is therefore not impossible to think that the Assembly has given in to the general disintegration that is affecting Western societies where the moral principles of tolerance, long impregnable bulwarks against extremism, are now flouted and liquidated with the bathwater.
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Because this is where the problem lies: in the passivity of an Assembly that votes without questioning the motivations of a highly political law with more than symbolic significance for the far-right movement. Moreover, let us repeat, this law, whose relevance and urgency raise questions, seems to pay little attention to the most tense relations between Paris and Algiers, relations that will naturally not improve in any way with regard to the text voted.
Another element, not without interest, and which brings together within it the porosity of the Assembly as well as its passivity, is the weakness of national representation and in particular that of the parties composing it. Because if the National Rally occupies the place it now has, it is because of the mediocrity of the other parties bogged down in sterile conflicts of influence instead of standing up against a movement that finds before it the free field to propose laws in line with its ideological fundamentals.
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Bio: Olivier Longhi has extensive experience in European history. A seasoned journalist with fifteen years of experience, he is currently a professor of history and geography in the Toulouse region of France. He has held a variety of publishing positions, including Head of Agency and Chief of Publishing. A journalist and recognized blogger, editor, and editorial project manager, he has trained and managed editorial teams, worked as a journalist for various local radio stations, was a press and publishing consultant, and was a communications consultant.