The debates will take place this Monday, and while the chances of success are slim, they come at a bad political time for the French government.
The French government faces two motions of censure this Monday from both sides of the parliamentary arc, the National Rally (RN) and France Insoumise (LFI), on the eve of the European elections that are announced to be disastrous for President Emmanuel Macron.
The leader of RN, Marine Le Penhas filed a motion of censure arguing that when the executive branch designed the budget last fall, it knew the numbers were unrealistic.
This correction resulted in the announcement in February of a linear cut of 10,000 million euros in government expenditure and the advance of an additional cut of the same amount on items to be determined.
In April the RN and also the parliamentary faction came from LFI, the left-wing party of Jean-Luc Mélenchonhad warned that they would table motions of censure if Prime Minister Gabriel Attal’s government did not present a budget within 30 days that would correct the autumn budget to take into account the deficit figures and the new economic outlook.
Last Tuesday, LFI deputy Manuel Bompard reiterated that, seeing that the executive would not have access to this rectification budget, they had planned the formalization of the motion of censure, which was also tabled on Friday and will also be discussed the same day. . Monday.
For a motion of censure to succeed in France, it must receive the vote of an absolute majority of deputies, a circumstance that very unlikely in this case.
The reason is that although the Macronist bloc does not have that absolute majority in the National Assembly, LR in principle does not intend to support it, even though it is not excluded that some of its deputies may do so.
If it were to continue, the first consequence would be the fall of the Attal government. Macron could then propose another prime minister, who would have to receive the support of the lower house, or resign himself to calling parliamentary elections.
In addition to the reasons stated for the state of government finances, the motions also have a clear political intention a few days before the European elections on June 9.
Source: EITB
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