“An interruption by the Socialist Party of the New Popular Front”: this is how rebellious France qualified, Wednesday, February 5, the decision of the socialists not to vote the motion of censorship against Prime Minister François Bayrou, Around the 2025 budget. The finance bill, on which the government initiated its responsibility on Monday via article 49.3, has qualified as a “most austerity budget for 25 years”, by political training. Faced with what they consider betrayal, the rebellious will convene “a meeting” with the rest of the NFP parties.
The NFP “cannot bring together both united opposition forces against the government and one of its supporters”, accused LFI in a press release, targeting the PS by this formula. “The rebellious movement will offer a meeting to each party of the new popular front front which voted censorship to take stock and continue on the basis of a loyal rally and clearly in opposition to macronism”, continues the radical left movement.
The boss of the Socialist Party Olivier Faure has replied to LFI that the new Popular Front “will continue to exist as long as there will be the will to beat the extreme right”, calling “tap number” on BFMTV The declarations of the party of Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
Only 128 deputies approved the censorship motion deposited by LFI elected officials, communists and environmentalists on Wednesday evening. In doing so, the budget for the year 2025 was adopted by the National Assembly. Six of the 66 socialist deputies voted censorship, against the advice of their group, against 37 of the 38 environmental deputies and 15 of the 17 elected officials of the group of communists and ultramarine.
“No alliance to the next legislative elections”
“Insoumise France convenes a meeting of its national coordination and its parliamentary intergroup at the end of this sequence to draw the political consequences of votes”, specifies also rebellious France, which has already threatened to present candidates against deputies outgoing socialists who did not vote for censorship in the next legislative elections.
Ecologists and communists have already announced that the PS decision, although different from theirs, did not represent a casus belli for them. The continuation of the NFP “in its current form therefore depends entirely on the fact that the Socialist Party returns to the opposition and the united fight against the government by voting the motions of censorship” which will be examined after the use by François Bayrou of 49.3 for Having the social security budget adopted, indicate the rebellious.