A result of chance in the order of speeches during the debate on the motion of censure on January 16, Olivier Faure, socialist deputy for Seine-et-Marne, spoke just after the Prime Minister. Sébastien Chenu, deputy from the North and speaker of the day for the National Rally (RN), took to the podium penultimate. This Thursday, it is an understatement to say that the RN did not play the leading roles in the National Assembly. Not only had the far-right party already announced that it would not vote for censure against the Bayrou government, but even if it had – like what it has already been able to do through the past – decided to change its mind at the last minute, the outcome of the vote would have remained unchanged.
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The majority decision of the PS not to vote for censure has, in fact, weakened the influence of the RN. His vote is no longer as decisive in bringing down the government. Sébastien Chenu implicitly underlined this shift: “By negotiating with an ultra-minority party, the Socialist Party (…)you went to work to hold on, to pass between the drops. » Mr. Chenu harshly judged the concessions obtained by the socialists, “this party of all betrayals”. As they “are bought cheaply, you have them, like a native tribe, coaxed with beads”.
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