An air of defiance on the opposition benches. Following a dinner at the Elysee on Wednesday night that enacted the beginning of a bill to approve pension reform, Emmanuel Macron threatened to dissolve the National Assembly if a motion of censure, voted jointly by the opposition. Enough to push the National Association and rebel France to take him at his word.
“Chiche”, launched Marine Le Pen this Wednesday morning on her Twitter account.
“Whenever you want”
The same story from the side of Mathilde Panot, the president of the LFI group in the National Assembly.
“Whenever you want: the Nupes are ready to defeat you”, launched the elected representative of Val-de-Marne on the social network.
“No fear!” tweeted For his part, the environmentalist deputy Benjamín Lucas.
“If a motion of censure is approved, everyone goes back to campaigning”
Emmanuel Macron said he was willing to wait until next winter for the pension reform to be adopted through a specific bill. However, he warned the heavyweights of the majority present during a meal at the National Assembly. In the event of a motion of censure voted by the opposition, he “immediately dissolves” the National Assembly and, therefore, new legislative elections will be called.
“I don’t want shit. If a motion of censure is approved, everyone goes back to campaigning,” he said again, according to a participant present at the dinner.
The attitude of the opposition and the very maximalist position of the president are explained all the better since the option of a motion of censure adopted seems unlikely.
LR who shouldn’t vote for
To be adopted, it must receive an absolute majority of the votes of the deputies of the Assembly, that is, 289 votes. In the current composition of the hemicycle, it would therefore be necessary to bring together the deputies from Nupes, RN and Les Républicains.
If RN and LFI could agree on a motion of censure, as Manuel Bompard said this Tuesday in the Public Senate, the vote of all the environmentalists and socialists, members of Nupes, seems more uncertain.
As for the LRs, it is difficult to imagine that they will reject the extension of the retirement age to 65 years. Olivier Marleix, the president of the LR group in the National Assembly, has already announced a “pragmatic” attitude towards this measure contained in Valérie Pécresse’s presidential program.
Source: BFM TV
