An answer in any case. La France insoumise (LFI) must present a motion of censure after each use of article 49, paragraph 3 by the government. “It is very likely, yes,” Clémence Guette, a rebel deputy for Val-de-Marne, told France Info on Friday. So little room for doubt.
The vice president of the LFI group in the National Assembly and her family believe that “it would be a mistake not to present a motion of censure after a third 49.3 in the week” (on the Social Security budget, editor’s note). Clémence Guetté develops: “We don’t want to trivialize the fact that the government arrives and says ‘the texts will pass as they are'”.
According to her, the motion of censure is “an opportunity […] to try to bring to light what is happening in the Assembly […]to tell people that all the oppositions, for very different reasons, are opposed to this draft budget” for Social Security.
“Trivialize motions of censure”
Within the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes), not everyone thinks the same. Unlike the two motions of censure presented the previous week, socialists, environmentalists and communists did not sign along with the rebels. They do not want to “banalize motions of censure”, as the communist deputy Pierre Dharréville said.
In this sense, the first secretary of the Socialist Party Olivier Faure explains in an interview for Release that a no-confidence motion should be tabled on the finance and social security bill “at the time of the final reading”. And not on every round trip between the two houses of Parliament.
The different colors of the Nupes see things differently. Guest of France 2 on Thursday night, Jean-Luc Mélenchon explained very clearly the objective of his parliamentary troops: “to bring down [le] government”. While urging the deputies of the Les Républicains (LR) party to stop being “the spare wheel of the majority”.
Only their voices failed last Monday during the vote on the Nupes motion of censure on the Treasury bill while the National Group decided, at the last moment, to vote in favor.
“A coalition is not a single party”
Socialists, communists and environmentalists do not seem to be prepared to follow the same path as the leader of the LFI. Guest of BFMTV-RMC on October 18, Fabien Roussel had defended motions of censure that, above all, allow him to send a message to the government: that “hear that the National Assembly is the image of what the French have wanted and that it must respect the parliamentary debate”.
Next Monday, during the vote on the rebels’ censure motion, the left could let divisions appear between its elect willing to vote on the provision and those who abstain. This even as the presidential camp has tried to weaken him by putting him on the same level as the extreme right this week.
“A good part [des députés de la Nupes] has already declared that they were going to vote” on the motion of censure, he tried to reassure Clémence Guette on France Info. In ReleaseOlivier Faure deployed an element of language well known from the formation of the left coalition.
“Each group has always preserved its freedom of appreciation,” explains the head of the Socialists. “A coalition is not a single party. Each party retains its identity.”
Still, the issue of no-confidence motions should come back to the table regularly. On Wednesday, Jean-Luc Mélenchon bet on his blog for the “fifteen uses of 49.3” by the government.
Source: BFM TV
