“We are not certain that the conditions for this trust would have been met. We will work text by text” to build majorities, said Olivier Véran after the first Council of Ministers of the new Borne government. “Trust cannot be decreed a priori, it is patiently built text by text.”
Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne “will not solicit the confidence of parliamentarians” on Wednesday during her general policy statement to the Assembly and the Senate, announced Monday the new government spokesperson, Olivier Véran. “We are not certain that the conditions for this trust would have been met. (…) We will work text by text” to build majorities, he said after the first Council of Ministers of the new government. Thick headed. “Trust cannot be decreed a priori, it is patiently built text after text”, launched Olivier Véran, who considered that the hand was “stretched with benevolence” to the opposition parliamentarians.
Without an absolute majority, the government of Elisabeth Borne is forced to seek majorities on a case-by-case basis, according to the texts. If the proposals “correspond to the political project which is ours (…), we will support them”, he continued.
The vote of confidence, not an obligation
A decision that does not pass on the side of the group La France insoumise, which said it wanted to file a motion of censure on Wednesday, which requires a tenth of parliamentarians. It must then be adopted by an absolute majority to effectively overthrow the government. “We do not abuse democracy with impunity”, tweeted the leader of the LFI group in the National Assembly, Mathilde Panot, who intends to “come by force” the Prime Minister “before Parliament.
Mrs. #Thick headeddemocracy cannot be abused with impunity.
We will therefore bring you by force before the Parliament.
As of this Wednesday, we will table a motion of censure against the government. pic.twitter.com/5qImZT84JQ
— Mathilde Panot (@MathildePanot) July 4, 2022
“It is not my conception of things to want to censor someone who has not yet started to speak”, retorted Olivier Véran, according to whom “no one has an interest in blocking”. Olivier Véran also recalled that the choice not to request a vote of confidence following a declaration of general policy was “not a first” in the history of the Fifth Republic, citing Michel Rocard, Edith Cresson and Pierre Bérégovoy who, Prime Ministers under François Mitterrand, had not had recourse to it either.