Barely had he begun his general policy declaration, Tuesday January 30 from the podium of the National Assembly, when Gabriel Attal saw his left-wing opponents table a “motion of no confidence” against his new government.
The Prime Minister had chosen not to seek a vote of confidence, in the absence of an absolute majority.
He will therefore have to comply with the exercise of the motion of censure on Monday February 5, at 10 a.m.
A schedule which must still be validated by a meeting of the conference of presidents, responsible for setting the agenda for the Assembly, and convened at 9:45 a.m. the same day.
The examination of the motion has already given rise to a small snafu when it was to pass in the hemicycle, initially, Monday February 5 at 9:30 p.m.
But Gabriel Attal would have been absent, due to travel to Germany.
“We in no way share the vision of the Insoumis”
“To free oneself from the vote of confidence is to choose to deviate from the fundamental principles of a parliamentary democracy,” denounces the left in its motion.
The goal is also “to show through voting who is in the majority and who is not,” confides an LFI deputy.
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The signing deputies will, however, have little support in the ranks further to the right of the hemicycle.
The left's motion of censure "announced even before the speech (...) discredits those who tabled it", said Tuesday, January 30, the boss of RN deputies, Marine Le Pen.
“We will not vote on the motion of censure of the Insoumis.
Because we in no way share the vision of the Insoumis,” also announced LR boss Éric Ciotti.
The right is still threatening to table one of its own in the coming weeks or months, which would a priori have a greater chance of gathering sufficient votes.
Before Gabriel Attal, Élisabeth Borne had to face around twenty motions of censure.
None has ever received the sufficient number of votes.