The organization led by Marine Le Pen leaked to the media that it does not plan to immediately censure the government to be formed by the experienced politician, several times minister under right-wing executives and former chief negotiator of the European Commission with the United Kingdom for the Brexit.

However, on the social network X, RN president Jordan Bardella warned that the party reserves any political means of action in the coming weeks if Barnier does not prove capable of responding to the “major urgencies of the French,” citing purchasing power, security and immigration.

Our 11 million voters deserve respect, that is our first demand, he said.

RN is the third political force in the National Assembly after the July legislative elections, behind the left-wing New Popular Front bloc and the ruling party, and the 140 or so deputies it can muster with its conservative allies are key to an eventual motion of censure to bring down the government.

Bardella set the general policy statement to be made by Barnier before the Parliament as a stage to be projected.

The political scenario is extremely fragile, which the government used to justify the more than 50 days it took President Emmanuel Macron to appoint a replacement in Matignon for the resigned Gabriel Attal.

For RN, the endless wait in which the president plunged the country was “unworthy of a democracy”.

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