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The House of Lords on Friday passed the binding law proposal Boris Johnson to request a postponement of Brexit to avoid an exit without EU agreement, much to the chagrin of the Prime Minister who, for his part, is betting on early elections for solve the political crisis.
The text adopted this Friday by the upper house of the British Parliament, validated Wednesday by MPs, must now receive the approval of Queen Elizabeth II, on Monday, to become law. It aims to postpone the Brexit by three months, scheduled for October 31, if Boris Johnson does not find a divorce agreement with the European Union by October 19.
The prime minister, who would rather " die at the bottom of a ditch " rather than reject Brexit, now hopes that the opposition approves his request to hold early elections in mid-October, to give himself a majority to get out of the EU on 31st October, agreement or not.
A new motion for early elections
After a first failure, the government will therefore submit late Monday night to the vote of the deputies a motion calling early elections. This must bring two-thirds of the vote to be adopted, but the chances of success are almost zero because after consultations, the opposition parties nicknamed "the rebel Alliance", decided to vote no or s' abstain this Friday, September 6th.
The strategy is clear, at least in the short term, analyzes our correspondent in London, Muriel Delcroix . The opposition parties want to make sure that Boris Johnson does not win the election, which would have allowed him to cancel the law preventing a Brexit without the agreement they just passed.
A stalemate situation
They also want to challenge the Prime Minister to obtain, as he claims to be able, a new exit agreement from the bloc at the October 17-18 summit. Because these parties are convinced that Boris Johnson is bluffing, that he will not be able to renegotiate anything and that he will be obliged to ask for a postponement of the Brexit, as is now required by the law passed this week in Parliament.
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This leaves the Conservative leader with two options: either he ignores this new law and triggers Brexit on October 31, or he asks for an extension in Brussels. Knowing that he prefers to " die " rather than resolve it, he can only logically resign. But Boris Johnson reported in the morning that he did not intend. Everyone is waiting impatiently to see how he and his advisers will get out of this new impasse.