First test for Elisabeth Borne: the left-wing censure motion against her government will be put to the vote on Monday, July 11, without hope of being adopted.

Discussed in the hemicycle from 4 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 groups Rassemblement national (RN) and Les Républicains (LR).

But the leader of the La France insoumise (LFI) deputies, Mathilde Panot, hopes to make it a demonstration of "mistrust" towards Elisabeth Borne, who does not have an absolute majority in the National Assembly, and did not seek a vote of confidence on July 7 in its policy statement.

“We will never accept anyone exercising power in the country with the sole legitimacy of being appointed by the President of the Republic,” his colleague Alexis Corbière explained on Public Senate on Monday.

[LIVE] The @FranceInsoumise defends its motion of censure against the government of @Elisabeth_Borne.



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"You are going to seek to censor a government which is starting its work", denounces Elisabeth Borne for her part.

"Jean-Luc Mélenchon's objective is to waste time in the National Assembly", lamented Monday on Cnews the patroness of Renaissance deputies Aurore Bergé, who however sees "a virtue in this motion of censure" : "it is that it will definitively demonstrate that the Nupes is clearly a minority in the National Assembly, a minority which wishes to block, a minority which vociferates, which wants to prevent the Prime Minister from expressing itself, but a minority" .

An absolute majority impossible to achieve for Nupes alone

LFI will speak first, before the intervention of the Prime Minister and then the other groups for a two and a half hour debate.

The left could on this occasion echo the revelations of the newspaper 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 Mathilde Panot.

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

To bring down the government, an absolute majority of 289 votes would be needed, impossible to achieve for the Nupes alone (LFI, Socialist Party, Ecologists, Communist Party), who are 151 in total.

Moreover, the socialist Dominique Potier did not sign the text and it is not certain that all the signatories are present.

Marine Le Pen repeated 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 deputies will examine in the wake of the bill on health security and its "braking measures" in the face of the resurgence of Covid-19.

This text aims to extend health data collection systems (Covid tests, vaccination) and set up a health pass at the borders 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.

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

With AFP

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