The motion of censure tabled by the New Popular Front last Friday was rejected this Tuesday evening by the National Assembly. Only 197 deputies voted against the Barnier government, insufficient to bring it down.
23:19 – How did the parties vote on the NFP’s motion of censure against the Barnier government?
END OF LIVE – Tabled by the New Popular Front, the motion of censure was voted for by almost all of its 193 deputies, since only the deputy from New Caledonia, Emmanuel Tjibaou, rejected it. As also announced, certain Libertés, independents, overseas and Territories (Liot) deputies also joined the left alliance. Four of them to be exact. In the presidential camp, despite the dissensions that exist internally, everyone rejected the motion of censure. Among Les Républicains, no favorable vote reported. From both the National Rally and the Ciotti camp, no one voted for the left-wing motion either. Here again, no surprise, the far right had announced its position. Finally, among those not registered, David Taupiac voted for the motion of censure.
22:14 – The rebellious Clémence Guetté denounces the behavior of the RN
“We have the coherence of our action,” said the rebellious MP Clémence Guetté on Tuesday evening following the vote on the motion of censure against the Barnier government. Like other NFP figures before her, the rebel denounced the behavior of the National Rally: “On the same day, Ms. Le Pen abstained from putting impeachment on the agenda in the chamber. And second act this evening, with an abstention on the motion of censure.”
20:17 – “Sooner or later this Macrono-Lepenist government will fall”, promises the rebellious Mathilde Panot
For Mathilde Panot, the “RN saved Macron by refusing the impeachment procedure” and saved “Barnier by refusing to vote for censure”. The rebellious esteems on X that if the motion of censure was rejected, this government remains “without any democratic legitimacy or popular legitimacy”. And the one who accuses Marine Le Pen of complicity with the Macron camp assures: “Sooner or later this Macrono-Lepenist government will fall, and then Macron will have to appoint Castets or resign.”
19:40 – The NFP’s motion of censure against Michel Barnier rejected
The majority bar, set at 289 votes, was not reached this Tuesday evening during the vote on the motion of censure of the Barnier government tabled last Friday by the New Popular Front. Only 197 MPs said they were in favor. The text is therefore rejected.
19:33 – “You rule by breaking and entering!” : the rebellious Clémence Guetté attacks Michel Barnier head-on
Still at the podium of the National Assembly, the rebel directly attacked the Prime Minister. “You rule by breaking and entering!” she said, before defending the need to “remove the monarch to prevent him from doing harm”. “Your government is illegitimate and today marks an essential moment of clarification,” judged Clémence Guetté during her speech.
19:17 – Macronist MP Pierre Cazeneuve denounces the “irresponsibility” of the NFP
Not hesitating to accuse the New Popular Front of “low-level Trumpist delirium”, the Macronist was not very tender towards the left alliance during his speech. He also denounced the “irresponsibility” of the NFP and criticized it for “building imbalance while the French need a direction”.
19:09 – “We don’t censor, because a single tweet from Marine Le Pen is enough to change the Prime Minister’s position”
“Yesterday, the New Popular Front withdrew in favor of macronism. Today, it wants us to censor a government tinged with macronism,” said National Rally deputy Guillaume Bigot for whom this motion of censure is nothing ‘other than a “deception”. “You want to bring down this government, but you do not have a replacement majority,” continued the MP. And to conclude: “We do not censor, because a single tweet from Marine Le Pen is enough to change the Prime Minister’s position on the deindexation of salaries […] we prefer to exert pressure on a government of lesser evil.”
18:50 – “If censorship must intervene, it will be on clear and major political choices”, believes Charles Alloncle
“You don’t like this government, neither do we, but the difference compared to you is that we have not withdrawn any candidate for it,” tackled the UDR deputy and close to Eric Ciotti. Indicating that his camp will “not block this government a priori”, Charles Alloncle nevertheless warned that this did not mean that the UDR was giving carte blanche to the government: “If censorship must intervene it will be on political choices clear and major.”
18:37 – This motion of censure “will at least have the virtue of situating the groups’ position exactly”, believes K/Bidi
From the podium of the National Assembly, the Democratic and Republican Left (GDR) deputy from Reunion, Émeline K/Bidi declared that “the multiplication of motions of censure that our Assembly has had to vote on since 2022 says something about the “the scale of the political and democratic crisis that we are going through”, adding that if this, which his group intends to vote for, has “little chance of succeeding, it will at least have the virtue of situating exactly the position of the groups of our assembly in their opposition or their allegiance to your government”, not hesitating to speak of an “exercise of political clarification”.
18:19 – Some Liot deputies intend to vote on the motion of censure
“Trust cannot be decreed, it must be earned.” In turn invited to speak at the podium, the co-president of the Liberties, Independents, Overseas and Territories (LIOT) group, Christophe Naegelen, also warned Michel Barnier that “we will have to apply ourselves to the substance and form. However, his “group does not see the point of sanctioning [le Premier ministre] today”, he informed, while specifying that not all the deputies of the group are of the same opinion. Some have in fact “decided to vote on this motion of censure”, he revealed, specifying that for them “the account is not there, in terms of public service, job insecurity, purchasing power, security and fears regarding respect for the rule of law”.
17:42 – Marc Fesneau (MoDem): “We will not vote on the motion of censure”
The group president’s turn MoDemMarc Fesneau to speak in the National Assembly, before the vote on the motion of censure against the Barnier government and in front of a very sparse hemicycle, he affirmed that his group will “not vote on the motion of censure”. He also regrets a “Pavlovian” motion of censure, “it’s a clannish, demagogic reflex”, he continues.
17:32 – Cyrielle Chatelain: “Without the support of the National Rally, your government would be overthrown”
From La Tribune, the president of the Ecologists group Cyrielle Chatelain affirms that “without the support of the National Rally, your government would be overthrown” she indicates in front of the deputies and the Prime Minister Michel Barnier. She speaks of “attached parts” to describe the deputies of the new presidential majority.
“We would have achieved a real political break. Dear fellow members of the Renaissance, Horizons, MoDem group, is this break so unbearable that you prefer a government supported by the National Rally rather than a political alternation,” she said. launched, imagining a nomination of Lucie Castets (NFP), in place of Michel Barnier in Matignon.
17:13 – Michel Barnier denounces an “illegitimacy trial”
The session at the National Assembly is suspended for 10 minutes before examining the motion of censure tabled by the left against the Barnier government. The Prime Minister denounced an “illegitimacy trial” regarding this motion of censure defended by Olivier Faure (PS). “I don’t need to be reminded that the government is a minority, I know that. But the relative majority that accompanies the government is today the least relative,” he explained.
16:59 – The motion of censure presented by Olivier Faure (PS)
The leader of the socialists Olivier Faure went to La Tribune to defend the motion of censure tabled by the left. “You cannot ignore the violence of this democratic hijacking. We demonstrate, it’s no use. We vote, it’s no use. Is this the meaning of our commitment to democracy?” he asks . He also denounces the “electoral hold-up” and the “democratic misappropriation” of the arrival of Michel Barnier in Matignon.
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