United Kingdom: weakened by the "Partygate", Boris Johnson faces a vote of no confidence

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson at 10 Downing Street, Friday May 13, 2022. © AP - Victoria Jones

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It had been expected since the start of “Partygate”, the Downing Street party scandal.

The British Conservative Party will hold a vote of no confidence in its leader, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, on Monday June 6.

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With our correspondent in London, 

The threshold of 54 letters of defiance was reached last week.

This is what Graham Brady, the chairman of the 1922 committee, in charge of internal questions for the parliamentary party, announced on Monday morning.

Fifty-four Conservative MPs, or 15% of the party's elected officials, withdrew their confidence in the leader, Boris Johnson, resulting in a vote being held on Monday evening, between 7 and 9 p.m. Paris time.

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The authors of the letters are under no obligation to make themselves known to the public.

Those who reported to the media evoke personal differences - the lack of exemplarity shown by the Prime Minister around the

 - and political, about immigration and the restrictions planned by the government around the right to demonstrate .

Boris Johnson is to meet with his MPs in the afternoon, before they vote.

He must convince 180 Tories.

Faced with the absence of a natural successor, observers are expecting a victory for the Prime Minister.

He would then be protected from a new vote for one year.

In 2018, her predecessor Theresa May

, only to be forced to resign five months later.

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