“The country got it into its head that the National Rally had the keys to the future of this government. Sorry, but that’s false,” says Laurent Saint-Martin at the Public Senate microphone. The Minister responsible for the Budget raises the threat of a motion of censure and focuses on the role of the Socialist Party.
“If you remove the votes of the socialists (…) censorship no longer becomes a majority,” he notes. Before referring to the proposed law from La France insoumise aimed at removing from the penal code the offense of apologizing for terrorism – which caused controversy this weekend – to better attack the unity of the left, considering that the PS “has nothing more to do” with LFI.
And to call on the fist-and-rose party, of which he was a member, to instead “get closer to a responsible coalition in the service of the country”.