Contacted by The New Republic this Tuesday, December 3, 2024, the deputy for Deux-Sèvres Delphine Batho (Ecologists) announces that she will vote on the motion of censure tabled by the left after the Prime Minister, Michel Barnier, decided to resort to 49-3 to pass the Social Security budget. This motion of censure was presented by the presidents of the LFI, socialist, environmentalist, and communist groups in the National Assembly, as well as 181 deputies.
« In the legislative elections, the French did not give a majority to anyone. The only winner was the Republican barrage, the defense of the Republic. We cannot have a Prime Minister who acts as if he had a majority and who directs his search for compromise only with the far right. From here there is a major problemdeclares Delphine Batho. The only mandate I received from voters was the Republican roadblock. »
The MP for 2e constituency also considers the draft Social Security budget unacceptable: “It adds to the medical deserts the dereimbursement of medicines, the increase in the remainder payable for medical consultation, the increase in the remainder payable on medical transport. »
What if the government falls? Delphine Batho calls for the constitution of a “reasonable government, compromise, which takes care of people's lives and stabilizes the country on the budgetary and social levels, which calms us to move serenely towards the presidential election of 2027”. Because the MP is not one of those who are calling for the departure of Emmanuel Macron and an early presidential election: “We escaped a far-right government in July, this is not to give all the keys to power to the far-right a few months later. »
