Four little letters unknown to the general public that give the government cold sweats. The Liot group, an acronym for Libertés, Indépendants, Outre-mer et Territoires, will present a motion of no confidence to try to overthrow Elisabeth Borne in the coming days and believes that it can convince widely, from the Nupes, to the RN through the LR .
Centrists, socialists and former macronists
It must be said that the twenty deputies elected from this group of deputies brew a very broad beer. First of all, there are former UDIs who have not had a group since 2017 and who had already met within Libertés et territories in the last legislature.
Among them, the headliner Charles de Courson, a respected specialist in public finance in the National Assembly, who has come to light in recent days by announcing the word on this cross-partisan motion.
Along with this Parliament taulier, elected for the first time in 1997, there are also ex-macronistas such as Paul Molac from Breton or Olivier Serva from Guadeloupean, who had highlighted his ex-colleague Sylvain Maillard on caregivers by launching “you are going to close it”. not vaccinated.
Former socialists are also Liot, like Jean-Louis Bricout or Benjamin Saint-Huile. In addition, most of the grocers elected to the Palais-Bourbon sit there, making up no less than a quarter of the troops, often new to the Assembly.
Macron and his “alliance” proposal
Also part of it are three elected officials from Corsica, who facilitate relations with the Horizons group led by Laurent Marcangeli, elected from Ajaccio. What offers some hope to the macronie at the beginning of his term, in search of allies in the absence of an absolute majority. Last October, Emmanuel Macron quoted them no less than twice in a long interview on France 2.
“They sent a clear message by not voting on the motions of no confidence presented on the budgets”, pointed out the president, who sees in this a possibility of “working” together on the reforms that will come, to the point of wanting to build “an Alliance”. .
It is that there, where the Nupes and the RN had already tried to overthrow the government during the first 49.3 of the budget in autumn, the Liots had remained very much in the background, not voting for any of them. Which offers a bit of optimism to the government.
“Good luck anticipating your vote”
However, when observing the details of the voting, it is clear that in a group where voting freedom is complete, these deputies were far from supporting the bills of the majority. On the unemployment insurance reform, 12 voted against, 8 abstained and only 2 voted in favor.
The same observation for the purchasing power bill, the first text of the mandate, where 15 of them had not taken part in the vote.
“The Liots, we don’t understand anything about it. It’s unreadable. Good luck anticipating your vote,” a Macronie figure screeched last January with BFMTV.com.
“An unacceptable threat of dissolution”
Bertrand Pancher, the president of the group, had also announced the color in the columns of Opinion last november. “If one day we vote for a motion of no confidence, it will be ours,” this former relative of Jean-Louis Borloo had advanced then.
The group now points to “an unacceptable threat of dissolution” to justify this motion of censure. Emmanuel Macron had stirred up the possibility of calling for new legislation on Wednesday night in case of rejection of the reform by the deputies, obviously without reaching the end of his approach this Thursday afternoon with 49.3.
“You cannot tell us that we are going to dissolve as soon as the National Assembly does not vote as the Élysée wishes. Otherwise, Parliament is useless ”, they explain in the entourage of the number 1 of the band.
“It is a deeply unfair reform” that is illustrated by “a denial of democracy,” Charles de Courson advanced on BFMTV this Friday.
Seducing disappointed LR and macronistas
In order to overthrow the government, the Liot group’s no-confidence motion must now gather 287 votes (and not 289, 2 deputy seats left vacant Editor’s note). To achieve this, the motion would have to be voted on by all the Nupes, RN deputies and at least thirty elected LRs, a very important figure for the right.
If the movement is very divided on the opportunity to retire at 64, Olivier Marleix, the group’s president, brandished the threat of exclusion for elected officials who would vote for her.
Within Liot, we are already projecting ourselves into the future. “Everyone is welcome in our ranks,” says an employee of the group. On the viewer: LR deputies but also disappointed Renaissance.
Source: BFM TV
