On July 11 between 4:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m., the debates on the motion of censure carried by the left animated the National Assembly. Result: Elisabeth Borne largely escapes dismissal (defended only by the left), without however emerging from this experience.
As a reminder, on Wednesday July 6, after an ambivalent general policy speech by Elisabeth Borne, a motion of censure was presented by the left in the National Assembly. Carried by the voice of Mathilde Panot and supported by 149 of her colleagues, she aimed to dismiss the newly installed government, neither more nor less.
“Jupiter, it’s over!”
Benefiting from the microphone in the first, Mathilde Panot frontally attacks the Prime Minister: “You are a democratic anomaly in this office.” According to her, “we find a striking resemblance” between the speech of Elisabeth Borne and that of Emmanuel Macron: “empty words, complacency and neoliberalism”. “You have not changed, neither in substance nor in form”she asserts, recalling the various scandals attached to the government in place, including the recent UberFiles.
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For Socialists and relatives, Olivier Faure ensures that “This motion of no confidence would make it possible to get out of the confusion maintained by the President of the Republic.” “You crack all the dikes by preferring the extreme right to the extreme left!”, he hammers just after, accusing the majority party. Masked, Elisabeth Borne shakes her head vigorously.
Unsurprisingly, the Ecologists as well as the Democratic and Republican Left agree with this opinion by assuring that “to refuse to submit to this vote is to refuse to submit to clarification”.
“You are angry with the Constitution”
Elisabeth Borne answered clearly: “You are angry with the Constitution”. And to continue: “You don’t have a majority at all. In a democracy, you don’t govern with the votes you could have had, but with the votes you have.” “We want to build solutions”, she assures, defending the goodwill of the government, which has struggled to ensure its legitimacy since the debacle of the legislative elections. She concludes by hammering that “to vote for this motion of censure would be to vote for instability, without respecting the choice of the French people.”
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For Les Républicains, it is the deputy Michèle Tabarot who carries the voice of a “opposition lucide” who refuses “sterile blockage”. After having again raised the repeated failures of the government, it however assures: “We will have to change the method, break with arrogance and contempt”. “Work for the interest of the French, we will be with you. Disappoint them again, and we will be your first opponents”she concludes on behalf of her party.
For the MoDem and the Independents, Philippe Vigier ensures that “Parliament is back” and that elected officials will have to “defend their country rather than their party”. Neither they nor the elected representatives of Horizons and relatives voted for the motion of censure.
Obviously, Aurore Bergé defends for the party of Emmanuel Macron (Renaissance) the cancellation of this motion of censure, while vigorously attacking the “tribune of the people” Jean-Luc Melenchon. She takes advantage of the occasion to mischievously “bring together” the extreme left and the extreme right around Russia, not without a few shortcuts.
On the side of the Freedoms, Independents, Overseas and Territories party, Christophe Naegelen admits that “the first signs [du gouvernement, ndlr] are not good”but also does not support “the comedy” from the left.
Finally, while representing the potential inflection point of the hemicycle, the National Rally refuses to vote for the motion of censure. On their behalf, Alexandre Loubet ensures that the “NUPES wants anarchy and street violence” and promises that his party will not support the “destruction of the Fifth Republic”. However, he reassures his voters by refusing to come too close to the majority, hoping for a “opposition constructive”.
In short, no one has confidence in this new government, except Renaissance, but no one wants premature censorship either, except NUPES. Nothing new or constructive.
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