26th motion of censure for the Prime Minister and 19th “49.3”. This is how we could summarize Elisabeth Borne’s Sunday evening. The Assembly first rejected an LFI motion of censure – this obtained 89 votes out of the 289 necessary to bring down the government – relating to the revenue part of the Social Security budget. A rejection which means adoption at second reading of the text. Then, the Prime Minister activated 49.3, this time on the expenditure part and the entire text.
After this new 49.3, the LFI group immediately announced the tabling of a motion of censure, which should, like the others, fail to obtain a majority of the votes of the deputies, which will allow the government to see the entire PLFSS adopted secondly. reading in the Assembly. The text can then resume its legislative journey in the Senate.
In her speech in response to the rebellious motion of censure, Elisabeth Borne used a well-known argument, pointing out the need for France to have a budget, and the absence of an “alternative majority capable of governing”. “We need the Social Security financing bill to keep our social model alive,” she said later, drawing out 49.3, barely opening the debate on the spending part of the bill.