Left’s legislative initiative against Élisabeth Borne fails in National Assembly by getting just 146 votes out of 289 needed
French Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne on Monday comfortably overcame the motion of censure filed against her and her government by the union of left-wing parties. The National Assembly clearly rejected the initiative of the New Popular Ecologist and Social Union (Nupes) coalition, which received only 146 support. They voted for, in addition to the Nupes deputies, the electoral alliance of La Francia Insumisa, the Socialist Party, Europe Ecology-The Greens (EE-LV) and the Communist Party.
For the motion of censure to pass, 289 deputies out of 577 in the National Assembly had to support it, allegedly causing the fall of Borne’s government. Left-wing parliamentarians wanted to denounce that the prime minister, elected last May by President Emmanuel Macron, has not requested a vote of confidence from representatives of the House after her statement of general policy before the National Assembly last week. In any case, she was under no obligation to do so.
“You are a democratic anomaly,” Mathilde Panot, head of La Francia Insumisa’s parliamentary group, snapped at Borne during the parliamentary debate ahead of the vote. He also warned that those who did not support the motion of censure would be considered “supporters of the government.”
If the National Assembly had approved the motion, the Prime Minister would have had to submit the resignation of her government to the President of the Republic. Borne, on the other hand, mocked the left’s legislative initiative, which he described as a “positional movement” as Nupes knew from the start it wouldn’t flourish because they didn’t have enough support to keep it going. Without the votes of Republicans (62 delegates) and Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally (89 seats), it would have been impossible.
The far right, in the midst of a campaign to present itself to public opinion as a respectable and constructive opposition, has refused to support Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s far-left French Insumisa party’s plan. In this regard, the spokesman for the French government, Olivier Verán, emphasized that yesterday is the “third successive failure of Mélenchon: the presidential elections, the parliamentary elections and this form of internal control of a vote of censure.”
A motion of censure is the only means available to the National Assembly to force the resignation of the Prime Minister and his government in France. To be able to present it, the support of at least 58 delegates is needed. However, they almost never thrive. In the Fifth Republic, a legislative initiative of this type caused the fall of the French government only once. It happened in 1962, against the cabinet of George Pompidou.
Source: La Verdad
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