A “posture motion”.
Government spokesman Olivier Véran called on LFI leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon on Sunday to "respect the vote of the French" and "allow Parliament" to legislate, on the eve of the discussion of a motion of censure on the left. before the National Assembly.
"He himself must accept the idea that the second five-year term has just begun, that the electoral page is behind us", he again pleaded to the RTL-LCI-Le Figaro Grand Jury, stressing that "the he general interest and the nobility of public policy is to focus one's attention, energy and efforts on improving daily life for the French people”.
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"He has with La France insoumise some 80 deputies, that's 200 less than what is needed to constitute a majority, and he continues to claim to have somehow won," insists the government spokesman.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon represents "an opposition party, we respect him for that" and "we ask him in return to respect the vote of the French and to allow Parliament to do what it was elected for".
“We are reaching out” to Nupes, assures Véran
The former candidate for the Élysée, who did not represent himself to be a deputy, estimated on Tuesday that the crisis born of the legislative elections, which could persist through a "blockage" in Parliament, "will be resolved by legislative elections.
And the left-wing Nupes alliance tabled last Wednesday, just before Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne's general policy statement, a motion of censure which will be put to the vote on Monday.
Its adoption is however very unlikely, even already lost in advance, the RN and LR groups not supporting it.
👉 Monday, the motion of censure against the government, tabled by the #Nupes will be debated
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" It will not succeed. Besides, it will be an opportunity for the Nupes to finally realize that they do not have the majority in the Assembly.
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— LCI (@LCI) July 10, 2022
“The Nupes will perhaps finally realize that they do not have the majority in the National Assembly, because they will bring together a maximum of a quarter of the deputies”, affirms Olivier Véran.
“We are reaching out, they want to turn their backs on us and I tell them that we will continue to reach out to them”.
Despite the relative majority of Macronists, in total "we have 400 deputies in the National Assembly, from Communists to Republicans, with whom we can build project majorities, in a logic of compromise" and "it is the choice that did the French during the legislative elections,” added Olivier Véran, himself a former socialist.
According to him, the motion of censure is “the very negation of this desire of the French to ask us to work with this logic of compromise”.