A surprising result. The motion of censure presented by La France insoumise against the budget, after the 49.3 initiated by Elisabeth Borne last Wednesday, was largely rejected in an electric atmosphere. 188 deputies voted in favor, far from the required 289 votes. The voices of RN, which has faced strong criticism since the racist comments of Grégoire de Fournas, were not enough.
This device, cited by article 49 of the Constitution, is the main way in which parliamentarians express their disapproval of the executive. If 289 deputies vote in favor, that is, the absolute majority of the National Assembly, it immediately provokes the resignation of the Prime Minister and her government.
Nupes elected officials who did not vote for the motion of censure
The rebels, who presented this motion alone, had been careful to specify that their “project” and their “vision of society” “place them in direct opposition to the extreme right”, which did not prevent Marine Le’s group from Pen will vote. for this with their deputies.
The elected RN had supported, to everyone’s surprise, the first motion of censure presented by the Nupes on October 24 – to the great annoyance of a part of the Nupes who had not appreciated joining their votes with those of the far-right deputies.
For this reason, this time some deputies of the leftist coalition abstained, and in particular the socialist group. This was the case last Monday, during the examination of a previous motion of censure by LFI. Assuming a strategic divergence, they did not join the presentation of the LFI motion, for fear of a “banalization” of the tool and a weariness of public opinion.
The political context also weighed heavily in the balance, after the lively controversy linked to the racist statements of an elected RN in the hemicycle this Thursday during a question to the government of the rebel deputy Carlos Martens Bilongo.
Arrival at the Senate
“We will see, Mr. Mélenchon, if you continue to accept the voices of the National Front without any problem,” Franck Riester, Minister for Relations with Parliament, also rebuked this Friday morning in Europe 1.
The 2023 budget is thus definitively approved and must now go through the Senate box before November 17 in the version remodeled by the government. The executive retained several amendments from the majority, such as the increase in wages for chaperones of disabled students.
The €12 billion for the thermal renovation of thermal screens plus the €3 billion for the rail sector that had been adopted against government advice were not retained.
Source: BFM TV
