Trust cannot be decreed, it is built.
Repeated at will in the majority, from Elisabeth Borne to Olivier Véran, the formula does not deceive anyone.
The construction of confidence is not of the same order as that of the
"compromises"
that the head of government called for on Wednesday.
Was the risk so great?
Article 50 of the Constitution is clear: if the Assembly
“disapproves”
of the declaration of general policy,
“the Prime Minister must submit to the President of the Republic the resignation
of the government”
.
But the verb itself specifies that the criterion is a majority of votes against, not the number of votes for.
That the Macronists do not have an absolute majority in the Hemicycle, everyone has known since the evening of the second round.
The lack of voting
For such a vote, with a handful of non-registered and elected from the Freedoms, Independent Overseas and Territories (LIOT) group, the executive could bet on around 250 votes.
In addition to the 151 Nupes, it would therefore have taken 100 other deputies voting against…
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