LE FIGARO INFO – LFI would have liked a “less political” motion to give it a chance to be voted on by “the greatest number”, making some of their allies cringe.
Should we try to get the motions of censure of the Nupes voted by the deputies of the National Rally? Or even, vote those filed by the party to the flame? At Les Insoumis, internally, these questions have already been addressed on many occasions since last July.
Asked about the subject at the end of September, the LFI deputy for Bouches-du-Rhône and close to Jean-Luc Mélenchon Manuel Bompard did not rule out the idea. “Why not“, he answered on Public Senate, adding according to him that it was necessary “vote on all the motions of censure that would be tabled in the budget“. Words that had pointed part of his camp already at the time.
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According to our information, the debate returned to the agenda during the discussions of the Nupes intergroup last week when determining what the joint motion of censure on the budget would contain (which will be defended by the ecologist Cyrielle Chatelain ). And La France insoumise pleaded for it to be “the widest” and “as political as possible» so that she is «more easily voted on by other deputies“. “The more you align motions with your political positions, the less likely you are to get them voted on“, justifies the deputy LFI and president of the finance committee of the National Assembly Éric Coquerel with the Figaro. During a press conference at the end of last September, the latter had however indicated that he did not wishpersonally» that the Nupes votes a motion of censure of the RN.
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“They didn’t want there to be any obstacle to the RN’s vote”
But this position ofopening” makes cringe among all the allies of LFI at the Palais Bourbon. “They wanted a completely empty text so that there would be no obstacle to the vote of RN deputies. It’s a shame“, annoyed a parliamentarian from the left present during the discussions and who recalls that the three other groups wanted a motion”more muscular“. “Them, they are on the dissolution, which is not our case“, Continues this same source before rejoicing that the motion is finally “politically marked“.
Another Nupes elected official confirms: the debates on the strategy to adopt during motions of censure have been “very restless“. “Basically, we all agree: no alliance with the RN. But on the form: it would suit the Insoumis that the RN votes our motions of censure, and they do not hide it“, assures this deputy. And another heavyweight from the Nupes to abound: “Communists, environmentalists and socialists are very clear: we do not want RN deputies to join their voices on our motion.And those of France Insoumise? “No commenthe replies, embarrassed.
If Marine Le Pen declared that “a priori“, the RN parliamentarians would not vote for the motion of censure of the Nupes on the budget, Jordan Bardella, the president of the RN, for his part clarified on LCI that he was “not opposed“that the deputies of his camp vote for a motion”who would not come from the RN“.
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