The French Government overcomes the two motions of censure

March 20 () –

The French National Assembly has rejected this Monday by 287 votes against and 278 in favor the motion of censure presented by the LIOT group –Liberty, Independents, Overseas and Territories– in the framework of the approval by decree of the pension reform promoted by the government of President Emmanuel Macron.

“The Government is already dead. Only nine votes were missing to overthrow the Government and its reform,” declared the deputy of La Francia Insumisa Mathilde Panot after the vote. “The Prime Minister (Elisabeth Borne) obviously must resign”, she has riveted herself.

However, the motion has not had the support of all 61 deputies from the Los Republicanos party, a conservative formation that, although it is not in the government bloc, has expressed its support for the pension reform.

Now there is a second motion of censure presented by the National Union, the party led by the far-right Marine Le Pen. Both motions were presented on Friday, after Elisabeth Borne’s government resorted to article 49.3 of the Constitution, which allows approval of a legislative initiative without a vote in Parliament, but at the cost of opening the door to the presentation of motions of censure against the Executive.