Even if the national rally voted with the left on a censorship motion, none of the three deposited by the oppositions were adopted, for lack of an absolute majority.
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The government of Elisabeth Borne has not fallen. Neither the two censorship motions filed by the new Ecological and Social People’s Popular Union (Nuts) nor that defended by the National Rally (RN) obtained, Monday, October 24, of absolute majority – 289 votes – prerequisites to overthrow the Prime Minister . These censorship motions were consecutive to the two 49.3 hired by the executive, on Wednesday and then Thursday, on the first part of the finance bill (PLF) and part of the social security budget. With 239 votes in its favor, the motion of the Nuts on the PLF is the one that has obtained the most votes. However, this result has proven to be insufficient, thereby confirming the adoption at first reading of the two texts where the government has engaged its responsibility. At the announcement of the result, the left nevertheless congratulated an important score which, according to her, weakens the executive. “He only missed fifty votes to censor the government. Macron and Borne are weaker than ever,” said the “rebellious” deputy of the Bouches-du-Rhône, Manuel Bompard.
If the failure of these motions was predictable, the president of the RN group, Marine Le Pen, created the amazement in the hemicycle by announcing during her speech the support of her 89 elected officials at the censure motion carried by the 151 UP deputies on the budget. After having maintained the ambiguity on her position, the deputy RN of Pas-de-Calais justified her choice by “the national interest” and “the acceptable terms” of the motion filed by the left, under the prohibited gaze of elected officials of the clouds. “We will never build a majority with the national rally and we will never vote for a motion of far -right censorship,” reaffirmed the president of the socialist group Boris Vallaud. The motion of the RN thus obtained 90 votes including one from France Insoumise, that of the elected representative of Martinique, Jean-Philippe Nilor.
This common voting of the Nuts and the RN was then conspired by the right and the presidential coalition prompt to denounce “an unnatural alliance” which does not constitute “an alternative majority to govern”. “Does this mean that an alliance [to overthrow the government] can do without common values, shared convictions, coherent ambitions?” Asked Elisabeth Borne.
The trap of the ‘extreme right
By announcing the rallying of her group to the Motion of the left, Marine Le Pen also sought to trap Les Républicains (LR) deputies. If the group led by Olivier Marleix has always claimed to be an opposition group, and had announced this summer its intention not to vote for the budgetary texts, the right party refused to vote the motions of censorship coming from the left and extreme right. However with 62 deputies, the LR group had the possibility, by voting the text of the Nuts alongside the RN, to overthrow the government of Elisabeth Borne. “From now on, there is no longer any doubt: [the Republicans] are the allies of Emmanuel Macron,” attacked Marine Le Pen.
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