Discussed in the hemicycle from 4:00 p.m., the motion of censure defended by the left-wing coalition Nupes has almost no chance of succeeding, for lack of support from the RN and LR groups.

But the leader of the LFI deputies Mathilde Panot hopes to make it a demonstration of "mistrust" towards Elisabeth Borne who does not have an absolute majority in the Assembly.

L'Insoumise criticizes the Prime Minister for not having asked for a vote of confidence last Wednesday during her declaration of general policy, a "strategy" of "save who can".

"Pschit"

"You are going to seek to censor a government which is beginning its work", denounces Elisabeth Borne.

Government spokesman Olivier Véran castigates a "posture motion".

According to LREM deputy Karl Olive, the motion "will make pschitt", showing that Jean-Luc Mélenchon, whom he sees behind this initiative, has "the absolute minority".

His macronist colleague Sacha Houlié also criticizes a "waste" of time, far from the concerns of the French.

Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne after her general policy speech in Paris on July 6, 2022 BERTRAND GUAY AFP / Archives

LFI will speak first on Monday, before the intervention of the Prime Minister and then the other groups for a 2:30 debate.

The left could on this occasion echo the revelations of Le Monde on the privileged links between Emmanuel Macron when he was Minister of the Economy, and the company Uber.

It is "a looting of the country", for Ms. Panot.

Only Members in favor of the motion will participate in the vote.

To bring down the government would require an absolute majority of 289 votes, impossible to achieve for the Nupes alone (LFI, PS, ecologists, PCF).

They are 151 in total but the socialist Dominique Potier did not sign the text.

Not sure also that all the signatories are present.

Marine Le Pen reiterated on Sunday that her RN group, in the midst of a quest for respectability, did not support the motion: "La Nupes does not defend the interests of the French, what they want is to blow up the Republic".

The examination of the "health security" bill and its "braking measures" in the face of the resurgence of Covid-19 was postponed in the evening.

Government spokesman Olivier Véran, July 7, 2022, in Paris Ludovic MARIN AFP / Archives

This text aims to extend health data collection systems (Covid tests, vaccination) and set up a border health pass if the health situation so requires.

The deputies unanimously reduced the deadlines for authorizing these measures in committee, until January 31 rather than the end of March – a “co-construction” welcomed by LR and the majority.

Overseas pass

But the RNs or certain elected Nupes contest the entire bill and intend to put the health policy carried out on trial.

On the far right, Julie Lechanteux had demanded in committee "proof" of the effectiveness of the health pass and launched that the "vaccine does not work" in the face of new variants, attracting the wrath of the majority.

At LFI, we denounce "culpable shortcomings" on the "free" tests or air purifiers for schools.

The debates should be animated about the Overseas Territories.

The text provides that the possible health pass at the borders applies for journeys between mainland France and overseas territories.

Several elected officials like Davy Rimane (GDR, Guyana) regretted a "stigmatization" of the Overseas Territories.

Aware of the tensions overseas, in particular around the obligation to vaccinate caregivers, the new Minister of Health François Braun has promised to go there soon.

The emergency physician will experience his baptism of fire in the hemicycle, in the midst of the seventh wave of Covid.

At the same time, discussions will begin in committee on the other centerpiece of the legislative summer, the bill on purchasing power, with hundreds of amendments on the menu.

Government and majority claim to be ready for "compromise".

But "it will not be the + whatever it costs! +", warned Aurore Bergé, president of the LREM deputies.

The purchasing power of the French under Emmanuel Macron's first five-year term Sylvie HUSSON AFP

The Minister of Economy Bruno Le Maire said he was open to new measures on the tax exemption of overtime and workers' fuel allowance.

The bill will land in the hemicycle from July 18.

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