The first motion of censure against the government of Gabriel Attal, tabled spontaneously on Tuesday January 30 by the four left-wing groups of the National Assembly before his general policy speech, will be debated and put to the vote on Monday from 9:30 p.m. -we learned from a parliamentary source.
Submitted jointly by the LFI, PS, environmentalist and communist groups, this motion of “no confidence” intends, according to the left, to respond to the fact that the government, with a relative majority in the Assembly, has not requested a vote of confidence. The date and time were decided on Wednesday afternoon at the conference of presidents at the Assembly.
The motion, however, has little chance of obtaining the 289 votes necessary to bring down the government, given the reluctance displayed by LR and RN deputies to vote for it.
“Captain of a drifting boat”
“Without a clear political objective, without definitively defined portfolios or ministerial boundaries, Mr. Gabriel Attal has, for three weeks, been the captain of a boat adrift,” denounce the 150 left-wing deputies in their motion. “To free oneself from the vote of confidence is to choose to deviate from the fundamental principles of a parliamentary democracy”, they continue, denouncing “the continuation of the most authoritarian methods that the Fifth Republic allows, in the service of a mandate presidential twilight without parliamentary or popular majority”.
If they call for clarification through this vote “who is in support or opposition to the government”, they should not benefit from much support from LR or the RN. The left’s motion of censure “announced even before the speech (…) discredits those who tabled it”, said the boss of deputies RN Marine Le Pen on Tuesday. “We will not vote on the motion of censure of the Insoumis. Because we in no way share the vision of the Insoumis,” also announced the boss of LR Eric Ciotti. The right always threatens to table one of its own, which would a priori have a greater chance of gathering sufficient votes.
Before Gabriel Attal, Elisabeth Borne had to face around thirty motions of censure, most of them filed in reaction to 49.3. They were all rejected.