In France, the motion of censure against Emmanuel Macron’s prime minister has failed

French prime minister Elizabeth Borne it won its first motion of censure, supported by conservative Republicans and Marine Le Pen’s schools, and saved his government from collapse. They did not vote. Only those sponsored by NUPES voted with 146 votes. There were 4 deputies from Nupes who did not vote.

The vote of no confidence was proposed by the NUPES alliance, invented by the leader of France Insumisa, Jean Luc Mélenchon together with environmentalists, communists and socialists, and was destined for defeat.

The problem is that it shows the extent to which Emmanuel Macron’s government will have to negotiate its legislation vote by vote, in a parliament. where it lost the traditional “absolute majority” of a French president A normal scenario in other European countries but not in France.

The vote took place before Parliament’s vote at first reading the extension of health measuresin the face of the growth of the covid epidemic and its variants Omicron B2 and B5.

Only those who supported the vote of no confidence voted. Marine Le Pen’s party did not vote for the National Rally and the Republican conservatives refused to vote for it, which lost their leader, Chris Jacob, who resigned and quit politics.

Less than a week after Socialist technocrat and Prime Minister Elizabeth Bornes presented her government program, NUPES launched the vote to weaken a government which is already fragile. It was Mélenchon, with the Republican vote of “Neither One” who helped him win the presidential elections against Emmanuel Macron.

But in the parliamentary elections, the vote in the Parliamentary Assembly exposed the France of today: fragmented, divided, impoverished and angry. Without an absolute majority for the government.

The defence

Fragile, vegan, who eats cereal every day, wears a blue bolero and a turquoise dress which are her favorite colors, the prime minister organized a well-articulated speech defend themselves in a vote of no confidence.

“Despite the invectives and despite the positions, I remain convinced that the commitment will allow action, both on the right and on the left of the House,” said Elisabeth Borne. “The common future has been replaced by the common invective”advanced, in a well-prepared formula.

“Less than a week later, we meet again. I would have liked to have talked about purchasing power, the climate emergency, employment, issues that concern the French. Instead, we are discussing a motion of censorship stitched together with a judgment of intent “, replied the prime minister.

The head of the French government and the second woman in that position harshly attacked the NUPES, especially the rebel deputies before the vote on the motion of censure.

“Angry with the Constitution”

“They are angry with the Constitution, trying to hide their attempted blockade under the name of a motion of censure,” the prime minister said.

“They are angry with democracy and the results of the polls because I can show you: they did not win the presidential or legislative elections ”, continued Elisabeth Borne.

“They invented the concept of an a priori motion of censure,” Borne launched to Nupes deputies.

He accused them of “putting political tactics before the interests of the French” by filing a motion of censure against the government.

Republicans did not vote in favor of the no-confidence motion. “We will not vote in favor of this motion of censure. We will not join our voices to those of the extreme left, with whom we have nothing in common ”, explained Michèle Tabarot, deputy LR from the gallery.

“Anomaly”

It was initiated by France Insumisa in the debate. With the deputy Matilde Panot, its president. He accused Madame Borne “of being a democratic anomaly”.

“You pronounce the word commitment five times, Madam Prime Minister. But not the shadow of a regret from the past five years”Said Matilde Panot, president of Francia Insumisa.

“It is logical that the denial of trust leads to distrust. Here we are finally back to parliamentary democracy ”, said the deputy Mathilde Panot, president of the LCI group at the National Assembly, in defense of Nupes’ motion of censure. “You are a democratic anomaly in this role,” she told Elisabeth Borne.

Socialist leader Olivier Faure is part of this alliance of Nupes, although the link between them, the Communists, the environmentalists and the Insumisos is not a bed of roses.

Faure accused the presidential majority of proximity to the Regrouping National, Marine Le Pen’s party, which has 89 seats against 150 in the NUPES: “It is unprecedented in the history of the Republic”.

“This motion of no confidence will not block anything, but it will repair the first fault of his mandate. A sentence linked to the reading made by the president of our institutions. The vote of confidence would be just the blank check that his majority should give to the Prime Minister. This reading of the Constitution is a crimeindeed, for our democratic life ”, denounced Olivier Faure Olivier Faure, the first secretary of the Socialist Party continued with his criticisms of Emmanuel Macron.

“And this motion of censure will have great merit: to get out of the confusion fueled by the President of the Republic, who gladly mentions Jaurès on Monday, De Gaulle on Wednesday and Mauras also on Sunday,” he denounced.

The socialist then spoke of the alliance, according to him, between the Renaissance of macronia and the National Rally, of Marine Le Pen. “There is a relative majority, your lady minister. There is also a tacit majority, the one that is formed with the Republicans. There is also the risk of a random majoritywhich will be formed with the National Grouping, ”said Faure, to the whistles of the majority.

“Yes, they can scream. I wasn’t the one who invented the words of Mr. Dupond-Moretti, Mr. Bayrou or Mrs. Calvez and others, who even expressed their preference for the far right rather than the left, ”he shouts. “This is unprecedented in the history of the Republic,” said the socialist leader.

Showing himself more and more critical of the majority deputies, Faure believes that this “break all the levees that from the provisional government of General de Gaulle have so far protected the Republic from nationalism “.

The government plans to adjust the price of electricity to the income of the families who consume it, after this victory over mistrust. A segmentation of the bills according to the salary of the family.

Emmanuel Macron will respond to a long interview on Thursday, on the occasion of July 14th.

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