In the end, only nine votes were missing. This Monday in the National Assembly, on the occasion of the vote of the cross-partisan censure motion tabled by the centrist group Liot, after the use of 49.3 as part of the pension reform bill, the government of Elisabeth Borne trembled, to the surprise of some. If the Nupes, as well as the National Rally, mobilized to vote for censorship, 19 Republican deputies also chose to vote for the text, against the advice of their leaders, Olivier Marleix and Eric Ciotti.
Upcoming debates
A significant figure, while the party, like the government, was counting on ten, or at most, 15 deputies in favor of the motion. They are therefore ultimately 19, including Aurélien Pradié and his relatives, Pierre-Henri Dumont, Julien Dive and Raphaël Schellenberger. The deputy for Lot calls for lessons to be learned from this sequence for the right.
“This vote says that we are going to have debates”, he judges in front of the journalists. “But that’s the story. Really, I’m telling you today, I have only one obsession, that’s what’s happening in our country. What I simply see among Republicans, it is that, what we have talked about a lot, often this personal adventure (what LR is), is not quite a personal adventure”, concludes Aurélien Pradié.
The RN motion also voted by LR deputies
And among the voters, some voices question. Nearly a dozen of them come from relatives of Laurent Wauquiez, like Isabelle Valentin, whose deputy is none other than the president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. The General Staff of the Republicans, a follower of the Coué method, refuses to speak of divisions. “The Republicans have shown consistency, responsibility and we are committed to defending our institutions, where others want to put them down,” said party president Eric Ciotti.
Finally, last blow: three LR deputies also voted for the motion of the National Rally. Pierre Cordier, Fabien Di Filippo and Maxime Minot.