The Prime Minister used 49.3 to pass the social security budget to the National Assembly. Two motions of censure have been tabled and could bring him down. Reactions in Gard.
This Monday, December 2, Michel Barnier, the Prime Minister, used 49.3 to have the National Assembly adopt the social security budget for 2025. As a result, two motions of censure were filed, one by the New Popular Front, the other by the National Rally. They will probably be debated and voted on this Wednesday 4. The probability that the two blocs, which between them represent 324 of the 577 seats (137 for the New Popular Front, 121 for the RN to which must be added the 16 UDR) will unite to to overthrow the government is proven.
The door to compromise closed for the RN
On both sides, their leaders announced that they would vote for censure which, pending the appointment of a new Prime Minister and a new government, would then lead to a period of uncertainty.
« The uncertainty into which France is entering is solely responsible for Emmanuel Macron and Gabriel Attal “, says Yoann Gillet, RN deputy for the first constituency of Gard, who adds: “The Prime Minister, by remaining deaf to the demands of the RN and by rejecting his amendment concerning the total renunciation of the deindexation of pensions, closed the door to a compromise which would have made it possible to partially improve the budget in order to avoid the worst. » Reaffirming that respect for voters of the National Rally is non-negotiable, the Gard parliamentarian believes “that the budget that Michel Barnier wanted to impose by 49.3 is a budget of fiscal injustice, social breakdown and worsening of the deficit, and because the government was not up to the task of the French political situation, the deputies of the National Rally will vote on censure on Wednesday.”
“Faced with a government deaf to our red lines (no tax increases, no de-indexation of pensions and no impact on healthcare and medication coverage), incapable of meeting the expectations of the French, the UDR group joins forces with the RN group to file a motion of censure against the government »writes for his part Alexandre Allegret-Pilot, UDR deputy for the 5th constituency of Gard who adds: “By filing this motion, we have the responsibility to put an end to this economic and budgetary chaos. »
Need for stability for LRs
On the side of the Republicans, who are preparing, this Wednesday 4, to receive Laurent Wauquiez, the president of the group in the Assembly, Laurent Burgoa believes that “France needs stability at least until July 2025, when new legislative elections would be possible.” “How will the Republican left, often very moralistic towards the right, be able to justify associating these voices with those of the extreme right? “, asks the Gard senator who calls “each MP to make his or her decision in the interest of the country and our fellow citizens who expect a certain stability in the face of France’s unprecedented financial situation.” “The only person responsible for this situation, he concludes, is Emmanuel Macron. The government of Michel Barnier must not be the victim of the political situation in which Emmanuel Macron has put the country. »
The left calls for a rally
On the left, the Nîmes collective of the New Popular Front is once again demanding that the President of the Republic appoint a New Popular Front government, the political gathering that came first with a relative majority in the second round of the legislative elections on July 7. “The motion of censure which will sanction, in the coming hours, the Barnier government requires the President to respect the results of the ballot boxes”, writes the collective which calls for a rally in front of the Gard prefecture, in Nîmes, this Wednesday, December 4 at 12 p.m.
F. P.
