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There wasn't really any suspense. The motion of censure filed against the government of François Bayrou, examined Thursday January 16, did not obtain the absolute majority necessary to be adopted. Alone 131 deputies voted in favor of the text tabled by La France insoumise and signed by communist and environmentalist deputies. It is 157 fewer than the 288 votes needed to obtain an absolute majority and overthrow the government.

The outcome of this vote was unsurprising insofar as the 124 deputies of the National Rally (RN) had warned that they would not vote the motion. The challenge of this election was above all to clarify the balance of power on the left by specifying in particular the positioning of the socialists vis-à-vis their allies in the New Popular Front (NFP). Very divided after the general policy declaration made by François Bayrou on Tuesday afternoon, the socialists finally declared on Thursday that they would not vote for the motion of censure against the government.

The distribution of votes by parliamentary group shows that this instruction was followed by 58 of 66 socialist deputies. They thus distinguish themselves from other left-wing groups, who all voted for the motion almost unanimously. This distribution of votes draws a divide within the NFP. At the other end of the hemicycle, the National Rally and its allies from the UDR group, chaired by Eric Ciotti, all abstained, in accordance with what they had announced (it is impossible to vote against a motion of censure) .

In the socialist ranks, eight deputies dissociated themselves from their group by voting for the motion of censure. These are Paul Christophle (1st constituency of Drôme), Alain David (4th of Gironde), Claudia Rouaux (3rd of Ille-et-Vilaine), Pierrick Courbon (1st of Loire), Inaki Echaniz ( 4th in Pyrénées-Atlantiques), Peio Dufau (6th in Pyrénées-Atlantiques), Fatiha Keloua Hachi (8th in Seine-Saint-Denis) and Philippe Naillet (1st of the Reunion).

Among the voters, several absences are also noteworthy, such as the deputies of the environmentalist group Delphine Batho (2nd from Deux-Sèvres) and Sandrine Rousseau (9th from Paris). The latter explained that she had missed the vote after being held in the commission of inquiry. “Signatory of the motion of censure, I obviously had to vote for this text”she assures on her X account. The communist Yannick Monnet (1st of Allier) also distinguished himself from the rest of his group: “I will not vote for this motion of censure which risks further damaging the country”he had warned the day before on this same social network. On the other hand, all the elected officials of La France insoumise voted in favor of the adoption of the text.