Le Pen furious as her party fails to secure key positions in French parliament

The far-right National Rally party, whose leader is Marine Le Pen, known for her pro-Russian views, did not win any key positions in the National Assembly after the election. The politician expressed outrage and said that it was a "shameful maneuver."

She wrote about this on X (Twitter). As reported by BFM TV, today, July 20, France elected the heads of eight standing committees of the lower house of parliament.

It is noted that the bloc of the current President Emmanuel Macron has united with a coalition of the left and even the right-wing Republicans party to prevent Le Pen's party from obtaining important positions.

The National Rally was also denied positions in the Bureau of the National Assembly. It is considered the governing body of the French parliament.

"The agreement made between the Macronists and Laurent Wauquiez to give the latter the representation to which the RN is legally entitled in the Bureau of our Assembly is a shameful maneuver. Almost 11 million voters were thus disenfranchised in favor of a party that garnered only 1.5 million," she said.

As reported, the far-right National Rally hoped to win the second round of elections in France, but "lost" them, taking only third place. As a result of the election, the New Popular Front party won 182 seats in the parliament; Macron's Ensemble coalition won 168 seats, and Marine Le Pen's National Rally only had 143 seats.

It was believed that the leftists had too many differences with Macron's party. Le Pen, the de facto leader of the National Rally, now claims that this is not the case and that the New Popular Front and Ensemble "are united by a hatred of democracy." This is how she commented on the left's statement about creating a barrier to the appointment of far-rightists to office.

As a reminder, after the failure of the parliamentary elections to the European Parliament, French President Macron dissolved the National Assembly in June and called early parliamentary elections in the country. The first round took place in late June.

According to its results, the far-right National Rally party was in the lead. Marine Le Pen's camp was already celebrating the victory, as the party received more than 33% of the vote, while the New Popular Front received less than 29% (the party of current President Macron, then only 21% of the vote).

Now the parties that have been elected to the country's parliament face a major challenge, namely forming a new legislative body. That is, they need to form coalitions to be able to pass new laws and shape the country's policy.

Le Pen had previously promised that after winning the election, the National Rally would change France's overall policy on assistance to Ukraine. If the head of this party, Jordan Bardella, became the new prime minister, France would not allow Ukraine to use its weapons to strike Russian territory.

She also promised to block the potential deployment of French troops to Ukraine, as previously proposed by Macron.

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