Europe1.fr with AFP/Photo credits: 2:44 p.m., April 7, 2024
The Republicans could table a motion of censure to bring down the government after the budgetary slippage of 2023. This Sunday, April 7, RN deputy Jean-Philippe Tanguy indicated that his party could support them in their approach.
RN deputy Jean-Philippe Tanguy assured Sunday that the National Rally would support a possible motion of censure tabled by LR to bring down the government after the 2023 budget slippage.
“We will vote for it, obviously,” said the MP on
BFMTV,
deeming an “electric shock” necessary to deal with an “emergency situation”. “We must confront this government with its responsibilities. It must be censured,” added Jean-Philippe Tanguy, who wanted this motion of censure to be tabled before the European elections on June 9.
LR red lines against the government
In an interview with the daily
Le Parisien
, the president of the Republicans, Eric Ciotti, set out on Saturday the "red lines" of LR (tax increases, deindexation of pensions, health spending) beyond which the party "does not "not hesitate" to table a motion of censure against the government.
The party has long threatened to censure the government, but until now it has largely refrained from joining the vote on the motions of censure tabled by the opposition during the examination of the latest draft laws. finances. France's public deficit reached 5.5% of GDP in 2023, according to INSEE, or 15.8 billion euros more than the government had planned.