For the first time in the history of the Fifth Republic, a motion of censure was adopted following the use of article 49-3 in the National Assembly.
Michel Barnier will therefore have to resign his government.
Without a Prime Minister and without a budget, France is entering a “period of total uncertainty”, believes Adrien Gindre.
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Motion of censure: the Barnier government overthrown
A first in the Fifth Republic. Shortly after the adoption of a motion of censure in the National Assembly, which led to the fall of Prime Minister Michel Barnier and his government, Adrien Gindre insisted on 8 p.m. on TF1, this Wednesday, December 4, on the unprecedented side of this vote. According to the head of the political department of TF1/LCI, this vote is “absolutely historic, not only in the fact that the government is overthrown, but in the scale.”
In fact, 331 deputies spoke in favor of censorship, which is much more than the majority, set at 288 votes. “It’s a very significant vote”he explained.
“No clear solution emerges”
For Adrien Gindre, this situation “opens a period of total uncertainty from every point of view.” Indeed, “there is no clear solution emerging as we speak, neither on who can be the new head of government, nor with what team, what majority, for what policy”he noted. “All of this falls in particular to the Head of State who, in the hours to come, will have to appoint a new head of government to start drawing a path”he added.
However, the resignation of Prime Minister Michel Barnier does not change the distribution of political forces in the National Assembly. Furthermore, no dissolution is possible before next June, the Constitution requiring the President of the Republic to respect a minimum period of one year between two dissolutions.
Whatever choices Emmanuel Macron makes, he will therefore always have to deal with the current balances of the Assembly. Gold, “as we have seen, a precarious common base between the supporters of Emmanuel Macron and the Republicans of Michel
Barnier, this was not enough to guarantee the stability promised by Emmanuel Macron”highlighted Adrien Gindre.
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The head of state is nevertheless free to find or appoint a new head of government for as long as he wishes, the Constitution not mentioning a vacation time limit. “Previously, it lasted 51 days, it’s his only freedom”recognized Adrien Gindre, who also added that the profile of the next Prime Minister also depended on the president.
“Emmanuel Macron can take his risk. He runs the risk that his new team will be censored again, because it is not because there was censorship today that there will be censorship in one, two, three weeks, one or two months, is impossible. We can enter a phase such that governments would be successively censored.recalled the political journalist on TF1. The stability desired by Emmanuel Macron therefore does not seem likely to happen.
