The Government French saved its continuity this Monday after overcoming two motions of censureone from the left and one from the extreme right, but made it clear that his lack of an absolute majority in the chambers keeps him in a weak position.
The motion presented by the left obtained 239 props50 from the absolute majority that would have forced the Executive to resign, while that of the extreme right obtained 90.
The censorship of the Government was presented after the prime minister, Elizabeth Borneresorted at the end of last week to a constitutional mechanism to approve the 2023 budgets, which are approved in this way.
The head of government will face a third motion tonight, which, like these two, has no chance of succeeding. It was presented by the left after Borne also deprived the Assembly of a vote on the Social Security accounts for next year.
If the rejection of the two motions was quite predictable, it was less so than the far-right leader Marine You Pen announce its support for the one presented by the left.
Le Pen confessed that the “critical” situation that the country is experiencing justifies putting aside the ideological differences that they maintain with the left and affirmed that she does not fear the threats of dissolution of the chambers and the convening of legislative ones launched by the president, Emmanuel Macronin case of government censorship.
This maneuver left the Executive at the expense of the votes of the 62 parliamentarians of the moderate conservative group The Republicanswho in view of the polls, are the least interested in returning to the polls.
That group, immersed in a profound renewal process and in search of a new leader after the debacle of its candidate Valerie Pecresse in the April presidential elections, he had already announced that he would not support either of the two motions of censure, despite the differences he maintains with the government.
Now, more than ever, Macron must count on these deputies to move forward, after having lost the absolute majority in the June legislative elections.
A situation that prevented him from obtaining sufficient support to carry out next year’s accounts, forcing him to resort to the constitutional mechanism that opened the doors to motions of censure.
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The Borne Executive stands on a unstable most and it survives because of the division that reigns between the opposition groups.
That was precisely the argument used by the prime minister, who criticized the left and the extreme right for “seeking instability at the cost, even, of diluting their ideological differences.”
“Their only point in common is that they seek the failure of the Government,” said the head of the Executive, who justified the approval of next year’s accounts by the need to provide the country with a budget at a time of crisis.
“Those who vote censure are against limiting the rise in electricity, revaluing teachers’ salaries, investing in our Armed Forces and our police, exposing the most disadvantaged classes and weakening the middle classes,” he said. Terminal.
In return, he added, the left and the extreme right “They only propose an unlikely government in which deputies who share nothing would sit together.”
The prime minister defended the budget, which does not imply a tax increase or an increase in the deficit, assured that it protects the French against inflation and denied that it had been prepared without dialogue, since before carrying it out without a vote there was a week debates in the lower house.
Borne stated that some of the motions adopted during that time have been aggregated, some even from opposition groups, from all groups except the extreme right.
Between boos he cited some of those amendments, a hundred that, in total, will suppose an additional cost of about 800 million euros.
