The motion of censure tabled by the left-wing alliance Nupes, debated Monday afternoon in the Assembly, is “sewn up with a trial of intent”, denounced Elisabeth Borne, responding to the leader LFI Mathilde Panot who sees in this vote “clarification”. “Today, ladies and gentlemen deputies, we could be acting for the French people. Instead, we are debating a motion of censure stitched with a trial of intent, which obstructs parliamentary work and therefore at the will of the French,” said the Prime Minister. She was responding to the leader of the LFI deputies Mathilde Panot who had just assured that the motion took the place of “political clarification”, judging that those who will not vote for it will be “supporters” of government policy.
Borne relaunches its “building together”
For Élisabeth Borne, “the French are fed up with sterile dialogues and the law of postures” and have “sent a clear message (…) ‘talk to each other and build together’. Last week, she called on the opposition to “build together” compromises in Parliament, where the presidential camp only has a relative majority.
“With your motion of censure, no tariff shield (…), no fuel discount (…) and no increase in pensions”, listed the Prime Minister, often interrupted in a sparse hemicycle outside the left rows. “What do you propose?”, “Nothing”, continued Elisabeth Borne who “sees little common ground” with the signatories of the motion and believes that “the motion of posture has replaced the motion of censure”.
A “moment of truth”
“Your censorship is ultimately a call for dissolution. Well, President Panot, unlike the signatories of your motion of censure, we are bringing solutions, not dissolution,” she added. “This motion of censure (is) the last gasp of the bloc against bloc policy” and to reject this motion, “is to respect the vote of the French, it is to refuse instability”, continued Elisabeth Borne.
Mathilde Panot saw it as a “moment of truth”. “Those who will not vote for this motion of no confidence will be the supporters of your policy”, from pension reform to “the policy of damage and social injustice”, she said. “You do not derive your legitimacy from the legislative elections, or even from Parliament, which you did not ask if it trusted you to lead the policy of the Nation”, hammered the elected LFI. “In other words, you are, in this office, a democratic anomaly,” she continued.