The inter-party motion of no confidence fell short of nine votes to pass, the National Rally motion fell short of 193. Therefore, the government was not overthrown by a vote of deputies in the National Assembly on Monday. The left and RN oppositions immediately called for the resignation of Elisabeth Borne. La Nupes called on Emmanuel Macron not to sign the text, the last step to ratify the text.
Elisabeth Borne “must go”
Marine Le Pen estimated this Monday that Elisabeth Borne “must leave” or “the president must resign” after the hard-fought vote on the motion of no confidence, which is “a clear sanction of substance and form of government”, according to the far-right leader .
“There is what the result of the ballot says mathematically, (but) there is what it says politically: I believe that the President of the Republic should listen to what this ballot says politically,” added the RN president in El Nacional. Assembly.
His group had presented its own motion of censure, voted for by 94 deputies. The text “has garnered more votes than the single votes of the National Rally and we salute it,” explained Marine Le Pen on BFMTV.
Withdrawal request and “popular censorship”
As soon as the rejection of the motion was announced, the elected leftists raised banners in the chamber that proclaimed “RDV in the street, “we continue” or “64 years no.” The Nupes also chanted “resignation, resignation”, addressed to the ministers present, first of all to Élisabeth Borne.
The leader of the LFI deputies, Mathilde Panot, estimated then, during an interview in the Four Columns room, that the government “is already dead in the eyes of the French”, also announcing that “nothing is finished in this country And we will continue until the end.” The rebel deputy François Ruffin also called for the resignation of the prime minister, also believing that President Emmanuel Macron, for “the appeasement of the country”, should “not promulgate” the pension reform.
“The time has come to move on to popular censorship. I want this popular censorship to be expressed on a massive scale” and this “in all places and in all circumstances”, evaluated the leader of LFI Jean-Luc Mélenchon for his part. He believes that it is through “social democracy that we will have to impose this decision.”
“In no way can the government demand a vote on its reform in the National Assembly,” said the leader of the Socialist deputies, Boris Vallaud.
The left has also submitted a request for a shared initiative referendum, to challenge the pension reform, to the Constitutional Council. The institution will now examine your admissibility. It has been presented by some 250 parliamentarians, deputies and senators, mostly from the left. If the text is deemed admissible, the collection of citizen signatures could be opened in an attempt to reach a tenth of the voters, or 4.87 million signatures, within nine months, to pave the way for a referendum.
19 LR deputies voted in favor of the transversal motion
The deputy LR Aurélien Pradié, who voted in favor of the motion of no confidence with 18 other right-wing deputies, asked Emmanuel Macron on Monday to withdraw this “poisonous law”, assuring that the Government of Élisabeth Borne has a “legitimacy problem”. .
“I, naturally, support this vote, which is the democratic decision. It does not occur to me to question this verdict”, but “today it is evident that the government has a legitimacy problem, that the President of the Republic cannot remain a spectator of this situation”, declared on BFMTV the deputy who did not follow the instructions of his party leaders who had called not to support the motion of no confidence.
“The first act of courage of the President of the Republic is to withdraw this text, to put everyone back at the table, that we rework a new pension reform,” he said, assuring that “this pension law is poisoned.”
“This text has become a burden on our democratic life”, said Aurélien Pradié. “We are not going to be able to rebuild anything from the social, political, democratic dialogue without withdrawing this text. When one is president of the Republic, he has a duty, it is the unity of the nation ”, he has rebuked.
Source: BFM TV
