A motion of censure submitted by Nupes received 193 of the 289 votes needed to topple the government, an unsurprising result given the LR’s lack of support. This rejection was adopted in the new reading of the 2023-2027 financial programming bill, which was sent to the Senate.
Targeting Élisabeth Bourne, the 18th audit resolution since her arrival in Matignon responded to the first activation of article 49.3 of the season to accept the budget line without a vote until the end of the five-year term.
Nupes’ spokesman, the Socialist Philippe Brune, immediately attacked the Prime Minister. “Your dismissal, your departure, all the French people ask me every weekend,” he told Elizabeth Bourne, laughing.
The deputy for Eure accused the “very good minority of the French of favoring a great slavery” despite the government’s “gross inflationary crisis”.
He again accused Emmanuel Macron of “trying to make parliament disappear by repeating his 49.3”.
Elizabeth Bourne preferred to assign her barbs to the “two extremes of the hemicycle”, LFI and RN. “Demagoguery is your only budget course!”, he told these two groups.
The episode foreshadows fierce parliamentary battles in the coming weeks. The French government has to use this constitutional weapon 49.3 in the autumn another ten times to adopt the state and social security budgets, because it has only a majority in the ‘National Assembly.
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