PARIS (Reuters) – Deputies rejected on Friday a new motion of censure, the fourth tabled by France insoumise (LFI) against the government, in an atmosphere weighed down by an incident in the session provoked the day before by a deputy from the National Rally, who was sanctioned.
The text won only 188 votes out of the 289 needed to censure the government. Its rejection amounts to adopting at first reading the entire 2023 Finance Bill, which the Senate will consider on November 17.
In addition to the National Rally and La France insoumise, the group including the Communists voted censorship but not the Socialist Party, which chose not to participate in the ballot.
This motion of censure tabled by the only rebels responded to the use of article 49.3 by the Prime Minister, Élisabeth Borne, for the fourth time in two weeks, in order to pass without a vote the budgets of Social Security and the State, for lack of an absolute majority in the Assembly.
During the debate preceding the vote, the Prime Minister accused La France insoumise of “putting intentions on trial” against the government, accusing the group chaired by Mathilde Panot, as well as Marine Le Pen’s National Rally, of “demagoguery, “blocking” and “posture”.
“I say this to the Republican arc group, ‘let’s work together,'” she told the other groups.
Elisabeth Borne and most of the speakers gave their support to LFI deputy Carlos Martens Bilongo, targeted the day before by remarks by National Rally deputy Grégoire de Fournas, who was sanctioned for this.
(Report Elizabeth Pineau, edited by Marc Angrand)
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