The opposition took this measure after the prime minister wanted to speed up budgets without putting the bill to deputies for a vote
False tension. As expected, the French government passed two motions of censure from the left and the far right on Monday. As the opposition failed to topple the executive, the first part of the 2023 budget was passed in first reading.
Nupes – the alliance of left-wing parties – and National Regroupment – the party of far-right Marine Le Pen – filed motions of censure against the government. They did so after the Prime Minister, Élisabeth Borne, resorted to Article 49.3 of the Constitution last week to accelerate budgets for 2023 without putting the bill to deputies for a vote.
To the general surprise, Le Pen’s party voted in favor of the motion of censure of Nupes, the alliance of La Francia Insumisa, socialists, environmentalists and communists. Until hours before they said they wouldn’t.
Nupes and National Regroup’s 239 votes were not enough to get the 289 votes needed to approve it and topple the government. Republicans – 62 seats – did not support the vote of the left. “We lacked 50 votes. Macron and Borne are weaker than ever,” tweeted Manuel Bompard, La Francia Insumisa’s deputy.
The motion of censure of the National Regroup was also rejected in the National Assembly. He only got 90 votes, the National Rally’s 89 votes and one additional vote. The left parties did not support it.
Nupes filed a third censure vote against the executive after Borne also used Article 49.3 to pass the Social Security budget by decree. It was expected that the government would also overcome this third vote of censure.
This measure is the opposition’s way of expressing its disapproval of the Executive. In the Fifth Republic, only once did a vote of censure lead to the resignation of the government. It happened in 1962 with the motion of censure against the cabinet of George Pompidou.
Source: La Verdad
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