Not long ago, LIOT – for Liberty, Independents, Overseas and Territories – was an acronym known only to those familiar with the National Assembly: deputies, parliamentary assistants and journalists. Composed of elected officials from overseas, centrists or socialists who have broken the ban for having refused to join the New People’s Ecological and Social Union (Nupes), this protean group will know its quarter of an hour of glory on Monday March 20. The transpartisan censure motion he proposes can radically change the fate of Emmanuel Macron’s second five-year term. At least in theory.
In 1793, Louis-Michel Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau voted for the death of the king. Two hundred and thirty years later, his distant descendant, Charles de Courson (first signatory of the motion), tries to federate the opposition to overthrow the government of Elisabeth Borne, accused of forced passage after a new use of article 49.3 of the Constitution to have the law on pension reform adopted without a vote. “Everyone knows that the RN motion will have 88 votes, not one moreadvances the deputy of the Marne (since 1993) questioned by Point. Ours is transcurrent. We believe that it can bring together, on the right, on the left, in the center, the moderates…”
On the Nupes side, Charles de Courson and his friends were left to direct the operations. The group of France Insoumise (LFI) has given up filing a motion to favor that of LIOT, considered more consensual. But to reach the magic number of 289 deputies (that of the absolute majority), it is not enough to refuel in the groups Nupes, National Rally (RN) and to round up two or three non-registered. The socialist Philippe Brun targets his colleagues to rally: the elected representatives of the Les Républicains (LR) party. “It’s simple, 28 LRs would have to vote for the motioncounts the deputy of Eure. It seems a very ambitious goal, no LR is a signatory, but we will see on Monday. »
An announcement from the RN on Leboncoin
And this is how the group pampered – in vain – by the government for weeks, to allow the reform to be voted on, has been receiving since Friday (and the filing of the motion) both calls from the foot of the RN and from the left to help them to overthrow this same government. “That all parliamentarians who do not want this reform to pass, vote for this motion, including the LRs”pleads the elected representative of Isère and president of the environmental group, Cyrielle Chatelain.
To lure the right-wing elected official, the RN vice-president of the National Assembly, Sébastien Chenu, published an announcement on the Leboncoin site entitled: “Looking for 27 Republican deputies ready to vote for a motion of censure”. The figure and the method change, but the idea remains to encourage these LRs, frustrated at not having been able to vote against the reform, to take their revenge with this motion.
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