The National Assembly Unsurprisingly rejected, this Wednesday, February 19, the censorship motion filed by PS deputies, who aimed to protest against a government who “gave in to the sad passions of the extreme right”, but only collected 181 votes for, far from the 289 votes necessary to overthrow it.
The outcome of the ballot was not in doubt, the deputies of the national rally having in advance indicates that they would not support this motion. This is the sixth time that Prime Minister François Bayrou has escaped a motion of censorship from the left. The text, which reproaches the government for “giving in to the sad passions of the extreme right”, had been signed by the 66 deputies of the socialist group.
“The most sewn censorship motion in white thread in the whole parliamentary history”
The examination of the censorship motion was marked the departure of the hemicycle of the majority of deputies of the socialist group at the time when Prime Minister François Bayrou gave himself up to the gallery to a severe charge against them. “This is the first time that I have seen a party that has deposited a censorship motion, leaving the assembly during the discussion of his censorship motion,” reacted François Bayrou, aroused applause on the right and on the RN benches. “But hey, innovation is the brand of living peoples,” he added, amused.
“This is the sixth that we examine in five weeks. And here is the most sewn censorship motion white in the whole parliamentary history,” castigated François Bayrou, also calling the initiative of “Motion of censorship to white “, or” to pretend “.
“We are here to judge a government that failed,” said socialist deputy Ayda Hadizadeh at the opening of the meeting. “To govern is not to follow the current, it is to hold the bar. To govern, it is not to pact with the shadow is to light the path.” She accused the Prime Minister of having resumed “the fatal words of migratory submersion, instead of denouncing the only submersion, the nationalist submersion”.