Which gives the government cold sweats. The Liot group (Freedoms, Independents, Overseas Territories) has just presented a motion of no confidence, co-signed by 91 elected members of the opposition from 5 groups in the National Assembly, with the exception of the LR, with the aim of overthrowing Elisabeth Thick.
“I call for the responsibility of all deputies to preserve democracy,” Bertrand Pancher, the president of Liot, launched into the microphone of BFMTV.
If the approval of this inter-party motion continues to be unlikely and is added to those presented by the RN after 49.3 on pension reform, on paper it is not impossible. Rebellious France prefers to join forces with this inter-party vote of no confidence.
298 deputies could potentially vote for her
And for good reason: for a motion of no confidence to pass, 287 votes are needed (normally 289 but two deputy seats are currently vacant Editor’s Note). Very far, therefore, from the figures of the Marine Le Pen group with its 88 deputies or the Nupes group that has 149 elected positions. The same observation for the LRs that have 61 members.
But the deal changes if political forces come together. The 287 votes are achievable if the LRs vote overwhelmingly for the motion of no confidence, as do all the RNs, Nupes and all the elected members of the LIOT group. All the oppositions represent 298 deputies, that is to say 11 small votes in advance.
Olivier Marleix Warning
However, it remains highly hypothetical that all right-wing elected representatives vote in favor of the motion of no confidence, while some of them support retirement at 64. Olivier Marleix, the president of the LR group in the Assembly also warned his own field of him on Tuesday.
He said that “it was not acceptable for deputies to jointly sign a motion of no confidence with people from the left or centrists” from the LIOT group. In his sights: the fear of a split in the group.
If this cross-partisan vote of no confidence were adopted, Elisabeth Borne’s government would be overthrown. Emmanuel Macron can then change his prime minister or reinstate his outgoing head of government. Nothing would force him on paper to dissolve the National Assembly. Politically, the option would obviously be on the table.
Source: BFM TV
