The opposition tabled two motions of no confidence today, following President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to force and pass the measure without the approval of the House of Commons. At the moment, however, the votes are not enough to overthrow the executive branch
The French government led by the Prime Minister Elizabeth BorneShe faces two motions of no confidence today. A move that came from the opposition after the president’s decision Emmanuel Macron to continue the hotly contested pension reform without going through the vote of Parliament and thus activating the mechanism provided for in Article 49.3 of the Constitution. “Singing, shouting, insults, beatings on the benches: this is the show some MPs put on last Thursday,” said the prime minister, speaking in the plenary hall, and as she began her speech, most opposition MPs left the plenary hall. “This was not an isolated fact, but the spurt of entire weeks in which we saw anti-parliamentarianism in all its guises,” he said. “Operation after operation, I have found that there really is no limit to duplicity. It is the same people who have done everything to limit debate who are now accusing us of limiting debate. These behaviors are serious.”
The movements – Today is the decisive day: theAssemblée Nationale will vote on the two motions for “censorship” tabled by national assembly from Marine Le Pen and the independent centrists from lioness. The latter will gather the highest bipartisan votes, from the extreme right to the extreme left. And the light remains on the undecided Républicains and the 15-20 votes missing to overthrow the government Elizabeth Borne. Two more from the moderate right this morning, Aurelia Prade And Maxim Minothave announced that they will vote no-confidence.
The debate in the plenary hall – At the moment the opposition does not seem to have the votes, but everything remains possible in a situation where two-thirds of French say they are unhappy with the government. The speech was greeted with applause Charles de Courson, leader of Liot, the small independent centrist party that tabled the “bipartisan” motion aimed at overthrowing the government. De Courson, a noble and senior civil servant-turned-parliamentarian, is one of the first and most passionate protesters of Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms. “Contrary to what the President of the Republic said – said De Courson to applause – the French did not elect him to raise the statutory retirement age to 64 or 65. Many of us elected him ‘by default'”. Coming from a noble family, De Courson is a distant heir of Louis-Michel Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, who voted to put the king to death in 1793. Louis XVI.
The President of the Renaissance Macronian majority faction, Aurora mountainsShe was the first to speak out against the no-confidence motions and her voice was long drowned out by boos and shouts from the opposition. There are many empty seats in the Parliament Hall right in the center, on the benches of the majority. In fact, Renaissance MPs are largely absent because their vote is not required: in fact, when voting for the “no-confidence motions”, only preferences for the motions themselves are counted. Aurore Bergé threw herself screaming, against a “motion of no confidence that wants to stop the country and aims to block it in the squares”. He then poked fun at the aims of an alleged “joint government” by those voting together against the government today: “They should explain what government they are preparing – he said – with Charles de Courson, Marine Le Pen, Mathilde Panot and Aurélien Prade.” MPs at the Rassemblement National then denounced “the chaos” of the executive branch with macronistic traction.stuckon the controversial pension reform. Lepenist MP Laure Lavalette also spoke in the classroom a “resolution” the National Assembly.
Immediately afterwards, the France Insoumise MP took the floor Mathilde Panot: “Emperor Caligula was also defeated. After looking in the mirror. Let Emmanuel Macron look at his reflection. Maybe he’ll see his fall there soon,” he said. In the classroom in Paris, the left-wing MP also explained that “the desire to beat Macron and his reform has become contagious”. He then turned to Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne and said: “The outcome of this motion of no confidence is of little importance. You have already lost. For many, your government is already dead“. The leader of the Républicains parliamentary group in the National Assembly, Olivier Marleix, assured his party would “not vote for no-confidence motions” (no confidence). “We will not approve the motions of no confidence,” assured the parliamentarian, despite the splits in the neo-Gaullist camp. This morning, instead, two other Republican MPs, Aurélien Pradé and Maxime Minot, announced that they would voice their no-confidence.
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Shortly before the vote, Prime Minister Borne invited several ministers a business lunch at the Palazzo Matignon, the Parisian equivalent of the Palazzo Chigi. A chief adviser explained that the purpose of the lunch was to show that the ministers were “supporting” the head of government in this examination. Interviewed this morning by France Info, the Minister for Transport, Clement Beaune, said that despite the social protest raging in the country, Borne “can and must remain at his post. She is a woman, a political leader that we need to lead the government of France in the coming months.” Last night Emmanuel Macron, who will dissolve the chambers in the event of mistrust and the overthrow of the government, wrote a letter hoping the reform would reach “the end of its democratic path”. The opposition is ready for anything: Marine Le Pen has promised all Républicains that in the event of a vote of no confidence in the event of a dissolution of the chambers and new elections, no competing candidates will be put up in their constituencies. On the far left the trade unions e Jean Luc Melenchon They reiterate that the mobilization will continue in any case, even if the government is not overthrown this afternoon.
the strikes – The protests have been going on for weeks. Many petrol stations in south-east France are currently suffering from fuel shortages. According to data consulted by France pressthe situation in the rest of the country is stable overall. At 10:30 a.m. today, about 8% of the country’s gas stations were running out of gas or diesel. A number of departments are experiencing a more worrying situation as, according to one union, there is a sort of “panic” effect around various union leaders calling for refueling. In the department of Bouches-du-Rhône, not far from Italy, the shortage affects 50% of the petrol stations. Double-digit percentages also in the neighboring departments of Gard (40.9%), Vaucluse (33.33%), Var (23.24%) and Alpes-de-Haute-Provence (22.22%).