The French prime minister reproaches the left for its “obstructionist” motion of censure

July 11 () –

The French Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, has reproached the left for the motion of censure that is voted on Monday for its “obstructionist” nature and that prevents her from working, since according to all indicators she will not obtain the necessary votes to force a change of government.

“The French need a government that acts, but some have only one obsession: to censor it,” Borne argued in a parliamentary session. “Today, ladies and gentlemen, we could be doing things for the French people. Instead, we are debating a motion of censure that obstructs parliamentary work and therefore the will of the French,” he added, according to the BFMTV network. .

Borne has raised between the boos of the opposition that he “would have liked” to talk about the “climate emergency” and other issues of interest to the French such as “employment, education or health”.

Meanwhile, the spokeswoman for the La France Insumisa party, the main promoter of the motion of censure, Mathilde Panot, has affirmed that Borne is “a democratic anomaly” for refusing to submit to a motion of confidence and has stressed that those who do not support the motion of censure they are “the supporters of your policy”, from the pension reform to the “policy of social injustice”, a dart aimed at the Los Republicanos party, a conservative party, but which is formally in opposition to the Borne government and of President Emmanuel Macron, and the extreme right-wing National Grouping party.

Political analysts have highlighted that despite the practically nil chances that the motion of censure will prosper, it allows the left to appear united and as the first option of opposition to the government of President Emmanuel Macron despite the fact that after the recent presidential elections the main force of the opposition has been the National Group.

For this reason, it will be key to observe if the 133 deputies of the joint candidacy of the left NUPES, New Popular Ecologist and Social Union, vote together despite being divided into different parliamentary groups. Even in that case, they would be far from the 289 necessary to topple Borne, since both the Republicans and the National Group have ruled out supporting the initiative.

From the other opposition formations, the leader of the National Association, Marine Le Pen, considers that the motion of censure “wants to blow up the Fifth Republic.” “We are not going to play this game,” said the parliamentary spokesman for the Republicans, Julien Odoul, who considers it to be a “childish” and “totally useless” initiative.