the RN will vote on the motion of censure from the left which accuses the government of having “given in” to the “extreme right”

Marine Le Pen's course is clear: bring down the executive – visibly, whatever the means. His party, the National Rally, announced on Monday that it would vote on the two motions of censure tabled against the Barnier government, its own and that of the New Popular Front (NFP). It doesn't matter if the text tabled by the left rightly condemns… the government's complacency with “the extreme right”.

In the text written by La France insoumise and co-signed by all the NFP groups (notably the PS, the Ecologists, LFI and the Communist Party), the elected officials deplore that Michel Barnier only made concessions to the right, to the point of reaching “a now clear agreement with the National Rally”. “While a large majority of our fellow citizens chose to support the extreme right during the legislative elections, the Prime Minister gave in to their vilest obsessions,” denounce the signatories, including the leader of the rebellious deputies Mathilde Panot, Boris Vallaud, Cyrielle Chatelain, André Chassaigne and 181 other elected officials.

“No savings” on immigration

Left-wing elected officials deplore that the government refuses “any measure of social justice” and do “the choice of austerity”. And to quote the “new immigration law” or even the “questioning State Medical Aid”which, they still defend in the text tabled in the National Assembly, “brings humanity and dignity to those who set foot on our soil and is an essential public health measure for all”.

Conversely, in its own motion of censure tabled on Monday, the RN considers that the budgetary policy of the current government “does not respond in any way to the challenges of our country” and points “the absence of structural savings expected by the French on immigration or on France's contribution to the European Union. The text, signed by 140 deputies from the coalition with the UDR, Eric Ciotti's group, deplores that the government has shown itself incapable of “stop spending contrary to popular will”, of “return purchasing power to the French”of “defend entrepreneurs and the value of work”of “fight against rents, speculation and fraud”of “degrease the state” via “massive debureaucratization”.

These two motions of censure will be studied and debated 48 hours after their submission, i.e. from 4 p.m. this Wednesday. It is the motion of censure with the most signatories, in this case, that of the NFP, which will be discussed first. For the government to fall, one of these two motions must obtain at least 288 votes. However, if, as they announced on Monday, the 138 elected RN and Ciottistes vote for the text of LFI, the latter would obtain 319 favorable votes.