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11 h 42. On X, Marine Le Pen returns to the choice of her group: “Censoring this budget is, unfortunately, the only way the Constitution gives us to protect the French from a dangerous, unjust and punitive budget which also aggravates the already monstrous deficits of seven years of macronism. »
11 h 35. This Wednesday, the RN deputy for Romorantin, Roger Chudeau, is preparing to vote on the two motions of censure, as he indicates to The New Republic. That submitted by the left of the New Popular Front and, obviously, that submitted by the RN. “The RN does not vote LFI. He votes to censure the government because the government has proposed a budget for Social Security which has a harmful impact on the budget of the French people”he says.
Roger Chudeau does not deny that the RN has, for several weeks, chosen to let the Barnier government govern. But he now admits his disappointment. “We were ignored by Mr. Barnier. Censorship is the logical next step. We gave the Prime Minister a chance until the last minute. However, he gave no room for negotiation and immediately drew the 49.3. We were not elected to permanently save someone who will pursue anti-popular policies. »
11 h 33. Delphine Batho will vote on the motion of censure tabled by the left, as she indicated to La Nouvelle République. “We cannot have a prime minister who acts as if he had a majority and who directs his search for compromise only with the extreme right. From there, there is a major problem”judged the member for Deux-Sèvres.
11 h 24. As recalled Liberation last year, several motions of censure almost passed. Under the presidency of François Mitterrand, several motions almost passed. In 1990, the Rocard government was almost overthrown by 5 votes. In 2023, under Emmanuel Macron, the government of Élisabeth Borne was also narrowly spared, this time by 9 votes.
10 h 37. The government’s motions of censure will be debated at 4 p.m. this Wednesday, December 4, according to parliamentary sources at theAFP. It is that of the NFP which will be studied first, indicates for its part Franceinfo.
10 h 30. The only precedent of a government overthrown following a motion of censure dates back to October 5, 1962. Under the presidency of General de Gaulle, Prime Minister Georges Pompidou was disowned. Since then, despite more than 130 motions of censure counted since the start of the Ve Republic, no further motions were adopted.
10 h 28. Can censorship pass? Let’s do the math. To be adopted, a motion of censure must gather at least 289 votes “for”.
The RN group has 124 deputies and its ally the UDR 16, or 140 deputies. At the other end of the hemicycle, LFI has 71 deputies, the communists 17, the ecologists 38 and the socialists 66, or 192 deputies.
If these two groups vote entirely for censure, they would bring together 332 deputies, more than the absolute majority. Michel Barnier would then be obliged to submit the resignation of his government.
9 h 33. On Franceinfothe national secretary of EELV Marine Tondelier criticizes the government’s attitude towards the RN: “They put themselves in the hands of Marine Le Pen”she said.
“We have a government which is in the hands of the National Rally”, for her part supported Lucie Castets, seeing that Michel Barnier “immediately turned to the National Rally”before finally opting for the 49.3.
8 h 59. On BFMTVthe first secretary of the Socialist Party Olivier Faure defends the motion of censure from the left. “We tried for two months to make proposals to the Prime Minister,” he recalls, sorry to see that “the only one he reached out to was Marine Le Pen.” “If we censor, it is not because we do not like Michel Barnier”he added, indicating that he wished “achieve substantive progress”.
On the presence of the president in power, he takes a different line from that of LFI: “the time has not come to bring down Emmanuel Macron”he estimated. To the question “do you want Emmanuel Macron to resign? »he clearly answered « non ».
If the government falls, Olivier Faure wants the head of state to appoint a new prime minister “left” but open “compromise” with the central block.
8 h 02. Guest of 4 Truths on France 2 this Tuesday morning, the Minister of the Economy Antoine Armand called on the deputies to ” responsibility “, asking them not to vote on motions of censure. “Michel Barnier’s government has been open to progress,” he assured, as on the reimbursement of medicines. “It is not the budget that we are censoring, it is not the government that we are censoring behind, it is the country that we are endangering, it is the country that we are damaging,” he added again.
At the same time, on RTLBudget Minister Laurent Saint-Martin estimated that the government had gone “at the end of the dialogue” before calling on 49.3. “The government has taken its responsibilities from the beginning to today, it is up to the oppositions to take theirs,” he added.
7 h 55. The motion of censure of the RN was supported by the UDR, the Union of Rights for the Republic, a group founded by Éric Ciotti in the National Assembly, following its split with the rest of the right, during its agreement with Jordan Bardella during the legislative elections.
The two groups list five priorities, presented in their counter-budget, which, according to them, have not been heard by the government.
7 h 50. How does a motion of censure work? We take stock on video.
7 h 48. Prime Minister Michel Barnier will be the guest of 8 p.m. of France 2 et TF1 this Tuesday evening. He will answer questions from Anne-Sophie Lapix and Gilles Bouleau, indicates the France Télévisions group in a press release.
7 h 44. Hello and welcome to this live. The day after the use of 49.3 to pass the Social Security financing budget, political reactions followed one another. The New Popular Front and the National Rally have tabled two motions of censure. If either is adopted, the government will fall. The point at the start of the day.
What to remember at 7 a.m.
- On Monday, the government used article 49.3 of the Constitution in order to force through its plan to finance Social Security.
- In response, the left, under the banner of the New Popular Front (NFP), and the far right (National Rally and Eric Ciotti’s Union of Rights for the Republic) tabled two motions of censure.
- At the RN, Marine Le Pen has already warned that her deputies would vote for the motion tabled by her group but also that of the left.
