France: a motion of censure against the government, what for?

French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne after addressing deputies during her "general policy statement" to launch the legislative session at the National Assembly in Paris on July 6, 2022. AFP - BERTRAND GUAY

Text by: Valérie Gas Follow

1 min

The parliamentary week begins this Monday, July 11 in the afternoon with the examination of the motion of censure tabled last Wednesday by the Nupes.

A debate which will allow each political force represented in the National Assembly, where the government only has a relative majority, to display its strategy for the five-year term which begins.

Advertising

Read more

Elisabeth Borne had not yet pronounced her declaration of general policy that insubordinate France (LFI) had already displayed the color by filing a motion of censure.

Which makes Olivier Véran, the government spokesperson, say that it is a motion of "

 " which we regret in the entourage of Elisabeth Borne that it results in " 

 ”. 

The frontal and radical opposition is a strategy assumed by the party of Jean-Luc Mélenchon which obtained, on the motion of censure, the support of its allies of the Nupes, not necessarily all convinced at the start and therefore avoided the appearance of the first cracks in the left alliance.

This motion of censure has a political objective: to appear as the real opposition in relation to the Republicans and the National Rally, who have chosen the strategy of the so-called " 

 " opposition and have already announced that they will not would not vote for censorship with LFI.

The motion therefore has almost no chance of being adopted.

And Elisabeth Borne to have to resign.

The Prime Minister will have a priority message in this debate: " 

".

► 

Newsletter

Receive all the international news directly in your mailbox

I subscribe

Follow all the international news by downloading the RFI application

google-play-badge_FR

• French politics

• Elisabeth Borne

• Jean-Luc Melenchon