The outcome was almost a foregone conclusion for the National Rally.
But the initiative will have allowed Marine Le Pen to put all the parliamentary groups "
back to the wall
".
By positioning.
This, after two weeks of debate on the pension reform project which did not lead to a vote on the final text or even on the article which concerned the postponement of the legal age.
The spontaneous motion of censure against the government, filed by the former finalist in the presidential election, was rejected in the National Assembly on Friday night.
The text presented by the elected Frontists received only 89 votes.
At the time of the vote, a majority of the deputies had already left the National Assembly, not listening to the interventions of the speakers from each group.
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To be adopted and thus bring down the government, the motion would have had to obtain the absolute majority of the deputies, that is to say 287 votes (four seats being currently vacant).
An absolute majority that no political group has in this legislature: all the oppositions would therefore have had to vote for Marine Le Pen's text.
“The debate has been confiscated”
During her speech, Marine Le Pen denounced the "
blind authoritarianism of the government which has chosen to hijack our Constitution
" by using a Social Security rectification financing bill (PLFRSS).
“
The debate was confiscated by the assumed blocking of the Nupes (...), by an LR group more than ever hostage to its ideological proximity to the presidential minority (...), and by the majority itself (. ..)
”, she scolded, criticizing a “
poorly designed, poorly carried out, and poorly explained project
”.
Before addressing the various groups present in the Hemicycle: his own, The Republicans, the Macronist camp, and the Communists, the only elected members of Nupes who have not left the Palais Bourbon for this intervention.
Long applauded by the Macronist troops, Elisabeth Borne was ironic about the silence of the RN deputies throughout the examination of the text at the Palais Bourbon.
“
The motion of censure was tabled by a group whose silence has been deafening throughout the debates and whose votes say nothing but the opportunism of each moment”
, she attacked.
Adding: “
What does the background matter, as long as the tactical move is good
”.
Before comparing the “
two populisms
” of the RN and La France Insoumise, “
two faces of contempt for democracy
".
She then attacked the behavior of the Nupes for a long time, regretting that the democratic debate could not take place.
This bill will be debated in public session in the Senate from March 2.