The government threatened? While Éric Ciotti, president of the Republicans, brandished in the columns of Le Parisien the threat of a motion of censure against the government, RN deputy Jean-Philippe Tanguy assured that his party would support such an initiative.
RN deputy Jean-Philippe Tanguy indicated on Sunday that the National Rally would support a possible motion of censure tabled by LR to bring down the government after the 2023 budget slippage.
“We will vote for it, obviously” affirmed the MP on BFMTV, during BFM Politique, in partnership with Le Parisien, considering an “electroshock” necessary to deal with an “emergency situation”. “We must make this government face its responsibilities. It must be censored,” he added, who hoped that this motion of censure would be tabled before the European elections on June 9.
“Red lines”
Saturday, in an interview with Le Parisien, the boss of the Republicans Éric Ciotti set LR's “red lines” on the management of the deficit, beyond which the party, which has around sixty deputies in the National Assembly, “do not hesitate” to file a motion of censure.
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“1. We will refuse any increase in compulsory deductions. 2. We will categorically refuse the deindexation of pensions. 3. Health spending should not constitute the adjustment variable for government wanderings,” explained the MP for Alpes-Maritimes, considering that these options “animate the ulterior motives of the government” for the post-European elections period of June 9.
A long-standing threat
“If these red lines are clear, we will not hesitate,” he added, saying he was ready to take his “responsibilities when the time comes”, without “fearing the judgment of voters” in the event of a dissolution of the Assembly if the government was overthrown.
LR has long threatened to censure the government, but until now it has largely refrained from joining the vote on the motions of censure tabled by the opposition during the examination of the latest finance bills. .
France's public deficit reached 5.5% of GDP in 2023, according to INSEE, or 15.8 billion euros more than the government had planned.