2023-06-12 18:39:18
Seventeen motions filed in one year for the same result. The motion of censure defended by the Nupes was rejected by the National Assembly on Monday June 12. Voted by 239 deputies, it should have received an absolute majority, ie 289 votes out of 577 deputies, to be adopted and overthrow the government. Before the vote, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne had argued the « courage » of his government in the face of “decibels” opposition, and defended his record as reshuffle rumors gather pace.
“Real political courage is to get out of the comfort of posture” et “to build majorities, even with those who don’t think exactly like us”pleaded the Prime Minister at the podium of the Assembly. “Me, I don’t confuse courage and decibels”, she launched, taking up the words of former head of government Bernard Cazeneuve on Saturday about Nupes. She also castigated the “inconsistencies”, « contradictions » and the “demagoguery” oppositions.
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Before the examination of this motion, tabled in the extension of the battle for pensions, the head of government had noted on Sunday on France 3 what “regularly some of the opposition leads us to demonstrate again that there is no alternative majority”.
During this interview, Mr.me Borne did not deny that there could be a change of government team. “These questions are discussed with the President of the Republic”, did she say. She hopes to have consolidated her position at Matignon since her recourse to article 49.3 in March to have the pension reform adopted, and a motion of censure passed in the wake of nine votes for the adoption. The president of Renaissance, Stéphane Séjourné, invited parliamentarians from the majority on June 21 to discuss the “political context”according to two sources within the party.
“You have to know how to end a dispute”
Socialist MP Valérie Rabault defended, from 4 p.m., this new motion of censure of the left alliance New People’s Ecologist and Social Union (Nupes), response to the failure, Thursday, of an attempt to repeal retirement at age 64. The bill could not be voted on in the National Assembly, which signals a “anti-democratic coup”according to the proponents of the motion.
At the podium, Valérie Rabault carried the motion on Monday by placing herself on another ground. “What is at stake today (…) is the possibility of putting an end to the discredit that the government is throwing on the National Assembly”she judged, criticizing in a stormy atmosphere a “duplicity” and “pressures” of Elisabeth Borne’s government during the pension crisis. “Are we still in democracy in Macronie? »added the patron saint of rebellious deputies Mathilde Panot. “Your responsibility now would be to resign”again launched to Elisabeth Borne the president of the independent group LIOT Bertrand Pancher.
The deputies of the National Rally, led by Marine Le Pen, voted for censorship: “Why are you afraid of Parliament”, “fear of the people”asked Var MP Julie Lechanteux.
But for lack of support from the right, censorship had no chance of being voted on, on this anniversary of the first round of legislative elections a year ago. “You have to know how to end a dispute”justified Jean-Louis Thiériot, who called, like the RN, to now move on to the question of immigration.
The presidential camp had meanwhile pinpointed in advance a “a form of tragic repetition”. “There is no majority [pour voter la censure]they know it very well (…) it’s a game of postures, a fool’s game”mocked on Public Senate the deputy Renaissance Sylvain Maillard.
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