The National Assembly on Monday largely rejected the first motion of censure filed against new Prime Minister Gabriel Attal. Tabled by the four left-wing groups, protesting in particular against the fact that Gabriel Attal did not request a vote of confidence from the Assembly, the motion received only 124 votes. In the absence of the support of LR and RN deputies, it therefore fails far from the 289 votes necessary to bring down the government.
Manuel Bompard, coordinator of LFI, defended in a chamber largely emptied of its deputies a motion to “protect the people from suffering”, from the rise in energy prices, medical deductibles or even the “reduction in unemployment benefits “.
“A preventive motion of censure”, denounced Gabriel Attal
Gabriel Attal was flanked by around ten members of the government, including the weakened Minister of Education and Sports Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, in turmoil since her comments about her children being educated in the private sector, in Stanislas in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, controversy to which Manuel Bompard readily referred. Denouncing a “preventive motion of censure”, tabled even before his general policy declaration, the Prime Minister also criticized the “collectivist myth” of his left-wing adversaries. “Your world is a world where there is no need for a European Union, where everything must be taxed all the time and everything collectivized,” he insisted.
“It will not have taken you long to have a bad record,” criticized the leader of the socialist group Boris Vallaud, criticizing in particular the pausing of the Ecophyto plan in response to the anger of farmers. Benjamin Lucas (ecological group) estimated that Gabriel Attal was “sometimes”, “the twin brother of (Jordan) Bardella”, president of the National Rally, criticizing the announced switch of the unemployed at the end of their rights to the RSA, or the adoption of the immigration law.
“Some in power not so long ago would have dreamed of having our record,” denounced on the contrary Caroline Abadie (Renaissance), in an allusion to the socialists. “With you in Matignon, our ideological victories are accelerating,” said RN deputy Jean-Philippe Tanguy to the Prime Minister.
Although it escaped censorship, the government sees the right raising its voice after Gabriel Attal’s announcement of a reform of state medical aid (AME) for foreigners through regulations, rather than passing in front of Parliament. Gabriel Attal thus survives a first exercise which had become routine for Élisabeth Borne and her 31 motions of censure on the clock, including one passed by nine votes close to being adopted, after the adoption in 49.3 of the pension reform.