Asking deputies to vote confidence after a declaration of general policy is not an obligation. The “rebellious” announced the deposit of a censorship motion to provoke a vote despite everything.
Le Monde
Elisabeth Borne has decided. The Prime Minister has chosen not to request the confidence of the deputies after her general policy speech which is to be delivered on Wednesday, announced the new government spokesperson Olivier Véran, on Monday, July 4, after the Council of Ministers .
“Confidence is not decreed a priori, it is patiently constructed text after text, he explained. We are the only party able to have a majority in the National Assembly. No opposition can , even by allying with another opposition, being in the majority. “For Mr. Véran,” the French expressed themselves [four times] and they have given their confidence to the project presented by the President of the Republic and the presidential majority, So this project, we want to implement it “.
“We have made an a priori count of the number of votes that Elisabeth Borne would have been sure to collect in the event of a vote of confidence, we are not sure that the conditions for this vote of confidence would have been met,” also justified the government spokesperson.
Asking deputies to vote confidence after a declaration of general policy, in accordance with article 49.1 of the Constitution, is not an obligation. On the right, Maurice Couve de Murville (1968) and, on the left, Michel Rocard (1988), Edith Cresson (1991) and Pierre Bérégovoy (1992) had for example chosen not to engage the responsibility of the government.
Faced with a hemicycle in which she has no absolute majority, M bound was “thinking” for several days and had announced that she would make her “decision after the consultations “with oppositions. The balance will finally be leaning in favor of limiting the risk of seeing its legitimacy tarnished by an overly tight, even unfavorable vote.
censorship
Insoumise France (LFI) had reacted a few hours earlier, when BFM-TV announced the information, accusing the Prime Minister of “mistreating democracy”. “So we will make you come by force before the Parliament. This Wednesday, we will deposit a censure motion against the government” in order to provoke a vote, announced the president of the LFI group to the assembly , Mathilde Panot.
“I am not surprised,” reacted Mr. Véran after the Council of Ministers, seeing “a funny method”. “It is not in my conception of things to want to censor someone who has not yet spoken, he continued. Before the Prime Minister even expressed himself in the hemicycle, you have a Part of this hemicycle who considers that it should be prevented from moving forward. “While, according to him,” no one has an interest in blocking “, in a national assembly where the presidential coalition has lost its absolute majority, the new Government spokesperson also said he was “convinced that there will be [it] no majority for this censure motion”.
The deposit of a censure motion requires the signature of fifty-eight deputies. The LFI group, which has seventy-five elected officials, is therefore able to deposit one on its own. To succeed, it must however be adopted by the absolute majority of the members of the National Assembly. If that was the case, the Prime Minister would be forced to resign.
According to information from the world, some, among the presidential majority, judged the deposit of censorship motions by less risky oppositions than the vote of trust. Their hope being that they fail and that they highlight the divisions between the opposition groups.