Prime Minister Michel Barnier used article 49.3 of the Constitution to pass the Social Security budget to the National Assembly. The left and the RN group table a motion of censure, which could bring down the government.
Article 49.3 of the Constitution has been brandished again. Prime Minister Michel Barnier forcefully pushes the social security budget through the National Assembly. As a reminder, 49.3 allows the adoption of a text without a vote. However, when the head of government initiates this procedure, deputies have the possibility of submitting a motion of censure. If adopted, the government is overthrown.
Two motions of censure
The left and the RN are going to table a motion of censure. The RN will also vote for the left. However, the government had given assurances, in particular by reducing state medical aid for undocumented immigrants. This is not enough, responded this morning on France Bleu Belfort Montbéliard the National Rally deputy of the Territoire de Belfort Guillaume Bigot: “We cannot sign blank checks when the Prime Minister snubs us for months and then at the last minute, because he finally understands that we are really going to censor him and we risk being serious about this censorship, he is, for example, releasing a reduction in taxes on electricity, but is at the same time preparing to increase taxes on gas. When he refuses to reindex pension contributions to inflation“.
So will he vote for the left's motion? His response: “But it is not the left's motion of censure that we will vote for. First, we will propose the same motion and the motion of censure, it is mechanical. It has no political color. There is a 49-3 to impose a project which is against the essentials of national representation. It has escaped no one's notice that there is no majority in this Assembly“.
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