• Elisabeth Borne will deliver her general policy statement this Wednesday in the National Assembly, then in the Senate.

  • In the absence of an absolute majority, the Prime Minister will not engage her responsibility with a vote of confidence.

  • The rebels have indicated that they will table a motion of censure.

    But can the Borne government fall?

    We answer all your questions.

The hour of the great oral has come.

Elisabeth Borne will deliver her "declaration of general policy" to the Assembly on Wednesday at 3 p.m., then again in the Senate at 9 p.m.

In the absence of an absolute majority, the Prime Minister will not engage her responsibility with a vote of confidence.

A choice that could ignite the opposition, while La France insoumise will table a motion of censure to overthrow the government.

20 Minutes

answers all the questions you are asking yourself (or not yet) about this crazy week at the Assembly.

Why is the policy speech eagerly awaited?

This speech traditionally allows Prime Ministers to present their project for France to Parliament, before discussing it with elected officials.

Elisabeth Borne will therefore outline the main orientations and the main measures that her government wishes to put in place for the coming months.

The moment is eagerly awaited because the opposition has accused Emmanuel Macron for several months of not having said much, even of concealing what he wishes to do for his second five-year term.

The head of government will discuss in particular the long-awaited text on purchasing power, presented Thursday, the next day, in the Council of Ministers.

But will she go further, by committing, for example, to the explosive pension reform, on which the executive has been blowing hot and cold for several weeks?

Elisabeth Borne, often described as "techno", will have the mission of convincing beyond the presidential coalition since in the absence of an absolute majority, it will be necessary to find around forty votes to pass future texts.

Why is there no vote of confidence?

Because Elisabeth Borne simply pulled out the calculator.

“We made an a priori count of the number of votes that the Prime Minister would have been sure to collect in the event of a vote of confidence.

We are not certain that the conditions for this trust would have been met, ”explained Olivier Véran, the new government spokesperson, on Monday.

After hearing the leaders of the opposition last week, the Prime Minister quickly understood that she was not at all certain of obtaining the majority, and that her government was in danger of falling in the event of a negative vote.

Olivier Véran also insisted on recalling that while all the Prime Ministers of the Fifth Republic complied with the exercise of the declaration of general policy, several of them, such as Edith Cresson or Michel Rocard, did not. not followed by a vote of confidence.

Can dissenters table a motion of censure?

Insubordinate France did not wait long to indicate that it would indeed file a motion of censure this Wednesday.

“Madame Borne, we do not mistreat democracy with impunity.

We will therefore force you to come before Parliament, ”launched Mathilde Panot, leader of the LFI deputies.

To table this motion, it must be signed by at least one tenth of the members of the National Assembly, ie 57 elected officials.

This stage does not pose any concern to the 79 rebellious deputies, who were finally joined by the other parties of the Nupes (PCF, ecologist, PS).

The vote on this motion is scheduled for at least 48 hours after it is tabled, possibly Friday.

Can the government be overthrown?

To adopt a motion of censure, and therefore oblige Elisabeth Borne to present the resignation of her government, it is necessary to obtain the absolute majority of the Assembly, that is to say 289 deputies.

A difficult barrier to reach, especially since abstentions are in this case counted as support (unlike the vote of confidence).

In addition to the Nupes (151 deputies), it would therefore be necessary for 138 elected opposition members to approve the motion.

This figure now seems impossible to achieve: neither the National Rally nor the Republicans should be associated with it.

“We are not here to block everything, to break everything, we are there to propose solutions”, indicated the deputy and spokesperson for the RN, Sébastien Chenu, on RTL.

“It seems quite childish as an approach, totally useless.

I don't think we will play this game."

Since the entry into force of the Constitution in 1958, 58 motions of censure have been tabled.

Only one took the vote to overthrow the government of Georges Pompidou in 1962.

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  • Elisabeth Borne

  • Government

  • National Assembly

  • Deputy

  • Vote of confidence

  • Motion of censure

  • La France Insoumise (LFI)