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Less than six months after the massive blow of dissolution, the National Assembly is preparing to censure the government of Michel Barnier, a gesture unprecedented since 1962 which would plunge the country into great political and budgetary uncertainty. The Assembly will examine from 4:00 p.m. the two motions of censure tabled by the New Popular Front and the alliance between the RN and the Ciottists, to bring down the Prime Minister, appointed on September 5.
This Wednesday, December 4 in the afternoon, a turning point in political life is taking place in the Assembly. Two motions of censure tabled after the use of article 49.3 by Michel Barnier to pass the Social Security finance bill must in fact be examined by the deputies. How should this vote take place? At what time could the government be censored? La Dépêche answers you.
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Before tackling the motions of censure, the deputies will have already debated a heated subject from 2 p.m., namely the end-of-management finance bill for 2024… which again could motivate the use of the Article 49.3 by the Prime Minister.
According to the National Assembly website, it is good from 4 p.m. that the discussion will begin around the two motions of censure tabled by the NFP and the RN. The two texts are in fact grouped together in a single discussion.
From then on, each group president will intervene to give a speech. Eric CoquerelLFI deputy and president of the Finance Committee of the Assembly, will represent the France Insoumise group and will begin this series of speeches. As detailed in the “session scroll” on the Assembly website, the following will follow in order:
- Marine Le Pen (National Rally) (15 minutes)
- Boris Vallaud (Socialists and related) (10 minutes)
- Laurent Wauquiez (Republican Right) (15 minutes)
- Cyrielle Chatelain (Ecologists and social) (10 minutes)
- Marc Fesneau (The Democrats) (15 minutes)
- Laurent Marchangeli (Horizons and Independents) (10 minutes)
- Charles de Courson (LIOT) (10 minutes)
- Nicolas Sanu (Democratic and Republican Left) (10 minutes)
- Eric Ciotti (UDR) (10 minutes)
- Gabriel Attal (Together for the Republic) (35 minutes)
- Stella Dupont (Not registered) (5 minutes)
Once the speeches are finished, probably around 6:30 p.m., it will then be the turn of Prime Minister Michel Barnier to speak at the podium, but no time limit is imposed on him. It is estimated that his intervention should last approximately 15 to 20 minutes.
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It is around 7 p.m. that the vote on the first motion of censure tabled, namely that of the NFP, should take place. To do this, deputies will be invited to vote in the Assembly lounges where several voting stations will be installed, normally for a duration of 30 minutes. The counting should then last around fifteen minutes for a result which should therefore be proclaimed by Yaël Braun-Pivet, the President of the Assembly from the perch, around 7:30 p.m. or 7:45 p.m.
If the vote of censure is adopted, the government falls, there will obviously be no vote for the second text tabled by the RN.
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