No drama in the Assembly this Monday evening.
Unsurprisingly, the no-confidence motion tabled last week by the left-wing Nupes coalition failed to obtain the 289 votes required to bring down the government.
Only curiosity: with 146 votes for, the motion did not get the full vote of the 151 Nupe deputies (LFI, PS, ecologists and PC) who took part in the vote.
The LR and RN groups had decided not to participate in the ballot.
Six deputies from the PS group (including the former president of the PS group in the Assembly Valérie Rabault) missed the call while the deputy (Debout la France) Nicolas Dupont-Aignan voted for the text.
Despite the lack of suspense, the vote gave rise to a vigorous debate between the representatives of Nupes wishing to impose themselves as leaders of the opposition and an Elisabeth Borne determined to fight it out.
"It is logical that the refusal of confidence reaps distrust", immediately underlined the boss of the LFI group Mathilde Panot, justifying the filing of her "motion of no confidence" by the Prime Minister's refusal to organize a vote. of confidence for lack of an absolute majority.
The very prepared punchlines of the Prime Minister
"You are, in this function, a democratic anomaly", even scolded the Insoumise before explaining, to the benches of the right and the RN, that the vote would take the place of "political clarification" intended to "unmask the deceptions”.
"This vote will make it possible to distinguish those who wish to serve as a crutch for this power or pretend to oppose it from those who bring a real alternative for this country", warned the MP LFI.
Very offensive, Mathilde Panot, MP for Val-de-Marne and leader of the Insoumis group, took the floor to castigate the government.
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Succeeding him at the podium, Elisabeth Borne immediately adopted an offensive tone.
“Today, we could be acting for the French.
Instead, we are debating a motion of censure sewn with a trial of intent which is an obstacle to parliamentary work", tackled the Prime Minister from the outset, to the applause of the sparse benches of the majority and the bronca of the left.
She also criticized the Nupes for acting above all by "political tactics" and for being "angry with democracy".
Before stringing together a few very prepared punchlines: "The posture motion has replaced the motion of censure", "We carry solutions, not dissolution" or even "The Future in common
(name of the presidential program of Jean- Luc Mélenchon)
has been replaced by the invective in common”.
At the end of the speech, the head of government nevertheless put on her velvet gloves again calling for "compromise".
"I will not give up listening to you and looking for what could bring us together," she pledged.
