Les Républicains (LR) deputies are meeting in Saint-Malo (Ille-et-Vilaine) this Tuesday, September 12, in the west of France. They promise a strong return to government. Determined not to give up anything to President Emmanuel Macron, the right is threatening motions of censure in the National Assembly.
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One or two motions of censure? The debate will shake up the reunion of LR deputies in Brittany. Among the supporters of a hard line, carried by the ambitious Aurélien Pradié, we are calling for a vote of censure during the discussions on the budget. Which would be a turning point for the LR, who have never voted against a budgetary text.
A motion of censure is not “ neither a totem of virility nor a taboo », tempers Olivier Marleix. In the pages of Figaro, the leader of the Republican deputies does not rule out a motion on another text: the immigration bill. The possibility of a new “job in tension” residence permit is a red flag for the right.
The standoff is underway with Emmanuel Macron, and the right is raising the stakes, with the ultimate weapon of censorship. The sixty LR deputies know they are essential to the head of state to have a majority in the Assembly. First test expected for the end of September, with the public finance programming law.
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