Exit, the Barnier government? Less than six months after the blow of dissolution, the National Assembly is preparing to censure the government of Michel Barnier, a gesture unprecedented since 1962 which would plunge the country into great political and budgetary uncertainty.
The Government will be set from 4 p.m. this Wednesday. Motions of censure will be discussed, defended, then voted on by parliamentarians. That of the left has every chance of being adopted, the RN having promised to vote on it, probably around 8:00 p.m., at the earliest.
288 votes needed to bring down the government
These two motions were tabled on Monday, December 2, following the Prime Minister's triggering of article 49.3 of the Constitution, to have the Social Security financing bill adopted without a vote. The suspense seems limited on paper: censorship of the government has already been requested by a large majority of deputies from the left and the extreme right, even before the debate scheduled from 4:00 p.m.
The two motions of censure filed by the left-wing opposition (New Popular Front) and the extreme right (the National Rally and its allies) are supported by 325 deputies, significantly more than the 288 needed to bring down the governmentwhich has not happened in France since 1962.
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