Unsurprisingly, the National Assembly successively rejected two motions of censure tabled by LFI and the RN, which intended to denounce the country’s budgetary situation six days before the European elections.
The LFI motion, supported by the left and the RN, received 222 votes, far from the absolute majority of 289 votes necessary to bring down the government of Gabriel Attal. That of the RN only gathered 89 votes.
Above all, the exercise gave the political camps the opportunity to confront each other in the run-up to the June 9 vote. Prime Minister Gabriel Attal criticized LFI and the RN for “loathing Europe” and forming “a community of interests in the service of political and economic instability” before the Europeans and the Olympic Games. Previously, LFI accused “macronism” of being “bankrupt”, due to “fiscal sabotage” favoring the “ultra-rich”.
“You will not escape popular censorship because Sunday’s vote will begin after Macron!”, launched the rebellious MP Matthias Tavel to Gabriel Attal. The National Rally for its part attacked the Les Républicains (LR) deputies, accusing the right of not supporting these motions of censure and of “saving the head of Emmanuel Macron”. “LR must stop presenting themselves as opponents. They are now auxiliaries and even, for some, future allies,” Marine Le Pen told the press.
“Parliamentary delights”
From the podium, the leader of the LR deputies Olivier Marleix brushed aside this criticism. “Obviously no one is fooled by the finality of these two motions a few days away” from the European elections, he said. “They are part of what General de Gaulle called the games, the poisons and the parliamentary delights.”
The LFI and RN groups tabled these motions to protest against the government’s budget cuts of 10 billion euros by decree in February, without submitting a amending finance bill to Parliament. This debate in the Assembly takes place at a time when France has just suffered a downgrade of its sovereign rating by the S&P agency, from “AA” to “AA-“.
In the Assembly, the leader of the socialist deputies Boris Vallaud accused the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire of “OSS 117 of public finances”: the government has “bankrupted” and “emptied the coffers”, he said. he judges. “France has no difficulty financing itself. And above all, we do not govern for the rating agencies but for the French,” said Gabriel Attal.