It will be defended Tuesday afternoon by the First Secretary of the PS Olivier Faure. Two weeks after the appointment of the new ministers, the first motion of censure against the government of Michel Barnier, signed by 192 deputies of the New Popular Front, was tabled on Friday, we learned from parliamentary sources.
“The existence of this government, in its composition and its orientations, is a negation of the result of the last legislative elections,” states the motion. It should be noted, however, that the text has very little chance of being adopted, the National Rally having indicated that it would not vote for it.
For the deputies of the New Popular Front, “the President of the Republic should have appointed to Matignon the personality proposed by the New Popular Front, the coalition having won the greatest number of seats in the National Assembly. This personality is then tasked with proposing a government to the President of the Republic and seeking to build majorities text by text.”
“Political orientations” do not please
“Second reason for censorship” put forward, “the political orientations of the Barnier government”, in particular the refusal of the executive to reverse the 2023 pension reform, and budgetary texts which promise to be “the most austerity (sic) of these twenty-five years. Furthermore, “Michel Barnier seems to be content with empty words about defending the environment and the climate,” accuse the socialist, communist, environmentalist and rebellious deputies.
“To vote for this motion of censure is to denounce the non-respect of republican tradition with the appointment of Michel Barnier to Matignon; it means preserving our social model; it means sanctioning a government which uses the concepts and vocabulary of the extreme right; it is finally to protect the rule of law, which is an intangible principle,” concludes the text, in an allusion to comments by Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau (LR) which sparked an outcry.
For the RN, we must “give the product a chance”
“The rule of law is not intangible or sacred,” Bruno Retailleau said last week, adding that “the source of the rule of law is democracy, it is the sovereign people” .
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RN deputy Laure Lavalette reaffirmed Thursday that the RN would not vote for the left-wing text. “I think the situation is serious enough not to already censor this government in advance. We are going to, I was going to say, give the product a chance (…) we cannot add chaos like you are doing,” she said on the set of France 2, facing NFP officials.
The motion could, however, be voted on beyond the benches of the left, by non-registered deputies, from the Liot group (independents) or even from the presidential camp.
Source: www.20minutes.fr
