The appointment is fixed.
Tabled by the Nupes, the motion of censure against the government of Elisabeth Borne will be debated and put to the vote Monday from 4 p.m. in the National Assembly, AFP learned this Thursday from a parliamentary source.
This calendar on this motion tabled on Wednesday, just before the declaration of general policy by the Prime Minister, was fixed at the conference of the presidents of the Assembly.
Its adoption is very unlikely, the Republicans and the National Rally not supporting it.
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Consequently, the start of the examination of the health bill allowing the maintenance of “braking measures” against Covid-19 is postponed to Monday evening, from 9:30 p.m.
A thirty-minute debate
"
In the absence of a vote of confidence
", which was not requested by the Prime Minister who does not have an absolute majority in the Assembly, "
we have no choice but to submit this motion of distrust
”, justify the groups La France insoumise, Socialist Party, Ecologist and Communist, allies in the Nupes coalition, in their text.
They thus intend to put “
each and everyone face to face with their responsibilities
”, explained the president of the deputies LFI Mathilde Panot.
The speaker from the LFI-Nupes group will speak first, before the government intervenes.
Speakers from the other groups will then speak in turn for a total duration of approximately two and a half hours.
The ballot, organized in the rooms adjoining the hemicycle, will be open at the end of the debate for 30 minutes, and only the deputies in favor of the motion will take part.
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To bring down the government, an absolute majority of 289 deputies must be gathered, which seems very unlikely for lack of a rallying of the opposition.
The left alliance Nupes brings together 151 deputies (one deputy did not however sign the text of the motion, the socialist Dominique Potier).
The RN (89 deputies) and LR (62) groups have already made it known that they do not plan to vote on the motion, any more of course than the Macronist Renaissance troops.
More than 100 motions of censure have been tabled since 1958, but only one was adopted, in 1962, which brought down the government of Georges Pompidou.
