This Thursday, January 16, part of the left (Rebellious, ecologists and communists) will table a motion of censure of the government, the day after François Bayrou’s general policy speech which did not convince all elected officials. The Prime Minister is still trying to negotiate with the PS. Follow our live stream.
This Thursday noon, the first motion of censure in the Bayrou government will be tabled in the National Assembly. The Prime Minister is still trying to tip the PS into balance, while ensuring not to lose the RN at the same time.
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Information to remember:
- The elected officials of La France insoumise, who continue to demand the resignation of Emmanuel Macron, have tabled a motion of censure, the 150th of the Fifth Republic.
- The vote on this spontaneous motion of censure is scheduled for around 5:30 p.m. and the result should be known around 6:00 p.m.
- To satisfy the PS, François Bayrou says he is “ready” not to eliminate the 4,000 positions in National Education which were to disappear, under the aegis of his predecessor Michel Barnier
- The RN does not intend to vote on the Insoumis motion of censure today, preferring to wait for the examination of the 2025 budget bill.
Vote on the motion of censure scheduled for 5:30 p.m.
Will François Bayrou’s government see spring? In any case, he will have to face a first test on Thursday with the examination in the National Assembly of a motion of censure which, even if it should ultimately not be adopted, will make it possible to clarify the position of the socialists.
Barely three weeks old, the government did not symbolically request the confidence of the Assembly on Tuesday after the Prime Minister’s general policy speech. Like his predecessor, he is deprived of a majority. In return, the elected officials of La France insoumise, who continue to demand the resignation of Emmanuel Macron, tabled a motion of censure, the 150th of the Fifth Republic.
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The text is also signed by communist and environmentalist deputies. But by no socialist. At the PS, despite long discussions, the decision to vote or not on the motion of censure was finally postponed… until Thursday.
After much procrastination and hesitation, the 66 socialist elected officials will have to determine whether the government’s concessions, in particular the announcement of a negotiation between social partners on the question of pensions to revise the 2023 reform, will be sufficient to win their non-censorship.
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“The authorities of the Socialist Party and the group in the Assembly will meet between now and the censure debate”, scheduled from 3:00 p.m., the party leadership told AFP on Wednesday evening. The vote on this spontaneous motion of censure is scheduled for around 5:30 p.m. and the result should be known around 6:00 p.m.
“It is absolutely necessary that the socialists have only one position. Otherwise we send the government the signal that he can shop with us and we send Jean-Luc Mélenchon the signal that he can shop with us. “We need the group to vote as one,” argues a PS deputy.
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Abandonment of job cuts in National Education
“The socialists have made fools of themselves and have tarnished the credibility of the New Popular Front. But I think they will lean towards censorship. Political life is binary: if we do not vote for censorship we are in support of the government”, believes for his part the national coordinator of LFI Manuel Bompard, who will defend the motion of censure for the Insoumis in the hemicycle.
“The account was not there in the National Assembly, neither yesterday, nor again today in questions to the government,” warned the leader of the socialist senators Patrick Kanner on Wednesday. François Bayrou had just announced that he would submit a new draft law on pensions to Parliament in the event of “progress” between the social partners, and even “without general agreement”.
Another gesture from François Bayrou: the abandonment of the 4,000 job cuts in National Education planned by his predecessor, Michel Barnier, overturned by a censure from the Assembly at the beginning of December. Thursday’s vote will mainly serve to clarify the balance of power on the left, and the positioning of the PS vis-à-vis the Bayrou government, as the decisive deadlines for the state and social security budgets approach.
Indeed, at the National Rally, party executives have already indicated that their deputies did not intend to vote on the motion of censure tabled by LFI. It was then impossible for the latter to reach the 288 votes necessary for its adoption.
Stéphane Lenormand, president of the independent group Liot (Libertés, Indépendants, Outre-mer), also indicated to AFP that his troops would not vote for it. “We will wait for the finance bill and the one on Social Security. We do not rule out taking a different position on these two meetings,” he warned.
On February 3, the National Assembly will resume examination of the 2025 draft budget for Social Security (PLFSS), a text on which the Barnier government fell in early December
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