The left has drawn its line between supporters and opponents of the government. Tuesday October 8, the motion of censure that she defended against the Barnier government – the first – only gathered 197 votes. Far from the 289 needed to bring him down. Only five votes were added to the 192 from the four groups of the New Popular Front (NFP): four votes from the Liberty, Independents, Overseas and Territories (LIOT) group and one non-registered (David Taupiac, elected various left of Gers) . Within the NFP, only the New Caledonian separatist Emmanuel Tjibaou did not support censorship.
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As expected, the left defended censorship in principle against a government which chose not to seek the confidence of the National Assembly. And that she simply finds illegitimate: “Never, Mr. Prime Minister, should you have stood before me and sat on these benches with a government, which also should never have been appointed”launched in the introduction the first secretary of the Socialist Party (PS), Olivier Faure, who notes that it is “it’s fashionable to act “as if” the liberal and conservative rights had won the legislative elections”.
Sensing clear cuts affecting social policies in the budget which is to be presented on Thursday, Olivier Faure does not believe that the tax increases announced will be carried out in a spirit of fiscal justice: “Mr Prime Minister, you said you wanted to “do a lot with a little, starting from almost nothing”. In reality, you want to do a lot with people who have little and almost nothing with those who have everything. »
The “least relative” majority
Facing the deputies, Michel Barnier clarified certain points of his general policy declaration delivered a week earlier. And he responded to the two main grievances raised by the left. On illegitimacy: “Among the relative majorities, what I see is that the relative majority which accompanies the government is today the least relative. » On the budget: “The reality that we have to tell the French is that we are spending too much, we are spending money that we do not have. And that we borrow at rates which are now moving away from those of our European neighbors. »
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Even if the National Rally (RN) had announced in advance that it would not vote for censure, the speech of its deputies was the most anticipated. How was the far-right group, which declared itself opposition, going to justify the survival of “the continuation of macronism by other means”according to the words of its speaker, Guillaume Bigot? The member for Territoire-de-Belfort himself described all the political and strategic elasticity of the RN: “I will explain to you why our group is burning to vote for censure, why it will have no qualms about voting for it tomorrow, but also why it will not vote for it today. »
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