After 49.3 activated Friday evening by Elisabeth Borne on the “expenses” part of the “security” budget, the elected officials on the left have once again failed on Monday to overthrow the government.
by Jeremiah Lamothe
In this fall devoted to the examination of budgetary texts, the National Assembly continues to live to the rhythm of the 49.3 and the motions of censorship. For the sixth time in just over a month, the few deputies present in the hemicycle, Monday, November 28, were called upon to debate a motion aimed at overthrowing the government. This had been deposited by Insoumise France (LFI) after the new 49.3 activated Friday evening by the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, On the” Expenses “section of the Social Security financing bill (PLFSS ), without any amendment having been examined in new reading by elected officials.
For the sixth time, the “rebellious”, supported by part of their environmental and communist allies, did not manage to obtain an absolute majority by collecting only 93 votes – far from the 289 voices required. If the outcome of these polls is little doubt, provoking some tensions in the new Ecological and Social People’s Popular Union (Nuts) on the need to systematically deposit censorship motion trivializing their effects, it is for LFI to continue to denounce the repeated use of 49.3 by the executive. From the gallery of the National Assembly, the deputy of Loire-Atlantique Ségolène Amiot (LFI) has thus accused the government of Elisabeth Borne of “killing democracy at low fire”. “We all know how you work, in the form of a board of directors. But the French Republic is not a company, and it will never be an absolute regime,” she castigated to the Prime Minister .
While the Socialist Party (PS) once again voted this motion of censorship, justifying “tactical divergences” with the “rebellious”, the deputy for Calvados Arthur Delaporte also deplored in his speech “Long litany of 49.3”, recalling the government its promise to build “a new method” of consultation with opposition after the loss of the absolute majority in June. “We want you not to forget that democratic vitality is a major rampart in the face of populism. The without discernment of the 49.3 sends an opposite signal,” supported the socialist elected official. In response to these attacks, Elisabeth Borne estimated since the gallery that he was “not serious to speak of brutality, for the use of a constitutional tool by which a government engages its responsibility before digitally more numerous oppositions” .
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