After the government of Michel Barnier, part of the left wants to censor that of François Bayrou. The president of the La France insoumise group in the National Assembly, Mathilde Panot, filed a motion of censure against the government of François Bayrou on Tuesday January 14, signed by 57 other deputies, from her ranks but also from communist and environmentalist groups. .
The motion, tabled shortly after the new Prime Minister’s general policy declaration, will be examined on Thursday. She criticizes a “denial of democracy” in the appointment of François Bayrou and the refusal of the head of government to comply with a vote of confidence. She also criticizes the composition of the government, “in itself a provocation justifying censorship”, with Élisabeth Borne at National Education, who “brutalized Parliament with 23 recourses to 49.3”, and at Interior Bruno Retailleau “who dare to speak of ‘Paper French'”.
Criticism of the budget
The signatories also criticize the choice of François Bayrou to “resume the budget presented by Michel Barnier”, his predecessor overthrown by a motion of censure, assuming to “block any new ambitious tax measure”
The motion is signed by 58 MPs, the minimum necessary, the number of motions that each MP can table under Article 49.2 of the Constitution being limited. Among the signatories, seven deputies from the ecological and social group, and nine deputies from the Democratic and Republican Left group, composed in particular of elected communist officials. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the leader of La France insoumise, who criticized the Socialist Party for “bringing the NFP to the ground” by negotiating with the government, quickly rejoiced to see that communist and environmentalist groups would vote for the motion of censure filed by the Insoumis, as well as, he assures, “number of socialist deputies”.
The PS threatens to vote for censorship
The PS, in fact, is still swimming in limbo. The leader of the socialist deputies Boris Vallaud, however, judged after François Bayrou’s speech that “the account is not there”. And the first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, who said on Tuesday morning that he was very close to concluding an agreement with the government, is now brandishing the threat of censure on the budget: the Socialists will vote on the motion of censure on Thursday, unless if they get “a clear answer” on pensions, he warned. The Socialist Party, which wanted to hear François Bayrou announce a “suspension” of the much-maligned pension reform, had to be content with the Prime Minister’s announcement of a three-month “conclave” to re-discuss this reform. with social partners.