Despite “important disagreements” with Sébastien Lecornu, the group of LR deputies decided not to vote in favor of censure of his government. This is essentially what Jean-Didier Berger, deputy for Hauts-de-Seine, indicated during his speech from the podium of the National Assembly this Thursday, October 16, before the vote on the motions presented by the LFI and the RN.
“It is the national interest that requires us to fulfill France’s commitments,” said the elected representative of the Ile-de-France region, for whom budgetary stability takes priority over any other consideration.
“If there were a majority and opposition, as usually happens here, we would be in the opposition and we would probably vote against this budget project, but there is no majority. And if without accountability there are only oppositions, then we will be in a budgetary void,” he explained.
Enormous freedom of action
However, the representative of LR deputies welcomed Sébastien Lecornu’s promise to no longer be forced to use 49.3. “This situation gives us all enormous freedom of action, a freedom of action that compromises each and every one of us.”
However, he warned the Prime Minister that “non-censorship” does not mean “granting blind trust.”
“This support will be the most demanding that you know, it will be exercised text by text, article by article, amendment by amendment, it will be based on the kindness with which your ministers will give opinions, I hope the most favorable, on the amendments that we will present,” he added.
The Hauts-de-Seine elected also spoke again about the suspension of the pension reform, which the government will propose through an amendment, as announced by Sébastien Lecornu. “The reform was necessary but insufficient, we will have to return to it in 2027,” he indicated.
He also accused the RN deputies “by aligning themselves with the positions of La France insoumise, of having given the keys to the negotiation to the Socialist Party.”
Source: BFM TV
