MPs return to the Assembly before the government's announcement

Marine Le Pen's National Rally, which prides itself on its role as arbiter, blew hot and cold this weekend on the government of the new Prime Minister Michel Barnier, between promises not to participate in “the disorder” and threats of censorship. Is this a way of revisiting the game of cat and mouse?

While Michel Barnier continued his consultations on Sunday to form his ministerial team and define his roadmap, the RN, whose leaders saturated the media space this weekend, made it known that it intended more than ever to place itself at the center of the game. Its armed wing: the contingent of 126 deputies in the Assembly – and even 142 with the support of Eric Ciotti's allies – who could hold the future of the future government in its hands.

Because for the RN, Michael Barnier is “under surveillance”, as Jordan Bardella put it on Saturday morning. “It's not a threat, it's an arithmetic fact”, Marine Le Pen defended on Sunday.

“This is not a government under surveillance, it is a government under the benevolence of the extreme right,” ex-Insoumis MP Alexis Corbière grumbled on LCI.