After Michel Barnier's use of article 49.3 of the Constitution to adopt the Social Security budget without a vote, a motion of censure was tabled by France Insoumise. The National Rally did the same.
Will Michel Barnier still be Prime Minister by the end of the week? The head of government is on an ejection seat after using article 49.3 of the Constitution to adopt the Social Security budget this Monday, December 2.
Following this decision, several parties announced their intention to overthrow the government of Michel Barnier, installed for less than three months. The New Popular Front and the National Rally have each filed a motion of censure.
• La France insoumise tabled a motion of censure in the name of the New Popular Front
On the side of the coalition of left-wing parties, which has 193 elected representatives in the National Assembly, France Insoumise tabled a motion of censure in the name of the New Popular Front. The leader of the rebellious deputies Mathilde Panot is the first signatory, BFMTV learned.
The votes of the other left-wing parties which make up this alliance should naturally be added to it. On
•The National Rally also files its motion of censure
This was the great unknown. The National Rally will also table a motion of censure. This is what Marine Le Pen announced as she left the National Assembly. The far-right elected official indicated that the RN deputies would vote on all the motions, “wherever (they) come from”, including from the left.
The leader of the RN deputies judged that the Social Security financing bill was “deeply unfair” for the French.
•The common base denounces “the chaos” expected after government censorship
What about the ruling coalition? On “The irresponsibility of the extremes risks leading us straight into the wall of the financial crisis,” judged Valérie Pécresse.
For Laurent Wauquiez, former president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and deputy for Haute-Loire, “everyone is now faced with their responsibilities: the general interest or chaos.” The party therefore seems to refuse the adoption of the motions.
Still on the side of the macronie, the deputy Ensemble pour la République Jean-René Cazeneuve accuses on BFMTV the oppositions, the left and the RN, of having “nothing” planned after the censorship of Michel Barnier, which should very probably intervene in two days.
“The question I ask those who are going to vote for censure on Wednesday or Thursday (is) ‘What do they have planned behind it?’. In fact they have not planned anything” and are applying a “strategy of chaos “, castigated the elected official from Gers.
For Michel Barnier and his government to fall, at least 289 deputies must vote for the motion of censure, which will be debated by the end of the week, at the earliest on Wednesday December 4 in the afternoon. If the far right joins its votes to the left coalition, then the Prime Minister will have to leave his post. His government would then become the shortest of the Fifth Republic.
