The announcement was expected, now it is official: La France insoumise (LFI) will present a motion of censure, after the government activated article 49.3 to adopt its pension reform, without the vote of the deputies.
This decision was not in doubt. The rebels had announced that they would present a motion of censure “in all cases”, even if the executive did not use the cleaver article.
“Whoever sows chaos reaps censorship,” said Mathilde Panot on BFMTV.
“Undemocratic Tools”
“You have, in examining this text, all the anti-democratic tools of the Fifth Republic that have been used one after the other,” Mathilde Panot, leader of the rebel deputies, had justified a few days before.
Even so, the disposition of the rebels has very little chance of being adopted and leading to the overthrow of the government. This would require the votes of an absolute majority of the members of the National Assembly (currently set at 289). Since the creation of the Fifth Republic, it has only happened once, in 1962.
It remains to be seen whether a cross-party motion, signed by deputies from the Liot group and some from the LR group, could receive the necessary votes to overthrow the government.
Source: BFM TV
