Perceived by opponents of the pension reform as a necessary step to maintain their protest, the motion of censure carried by the left, Monday, June 12, marks the end of a parliamentary cycle which will have lasted nearly five months. With 239 votesthe elected representatives of the New Popular, Ecological and Social Union (Nupes), supported by the deputies of the National Rally (RN), failed to obtain the 289 votes necessary to overthrow the government.
Unlike the last transpartisan censure motion which had missed its target by nine votes, on March 20, only two Freedoms, Independents, Overseas and Territories (LIOT) deputies – Olivier Serva (Guadeloupe) and Stéphane Lenormand (Saint-Pierre -et-Miquelon) –, joined the voices of Nupes and RN. The 62 LR deputies did not take part in the vote.
This motion of censure – the seventeenth since the start of the legislature – was the response of the Nupes to the debate ” stop “ in the Hemicycle, Thursday, June 8, on the bill aimed at repealing the pension reform of the LIOT group. Wishing to avoid a perilous vote, the presidential camp had managed to thwart this initiative by relying on article 40 of the Constitution, estimating that this proposal constituted a charge of 15 to 20 billion euros on public finances.
“A dangerous path, that of the arbitrary”
The President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, pressed by her relative majority, had herself declared this text inadmissible against the opinion of the “rebellious” president of the finance committee, Eric Coquerel. A decision which was intended to bury the proposed law of the LIOT group, ulcerating oppositions quick to denounce an attack against the legislative power.
“By proceeding in this way, you have opened a dangerous path, that of arbitrariness, that which damages the rule of law that our country has courageously built over the years since the French Revolution”, struck the socialist vice-president of the National Assembly, Valérie Rabault, who defended the motion of censure on behalf of Nupes. Words all the harsher, as the deputy of Tarn-et-Garonne is regularly cited by macronists as one of the figures on the left with whom a rapprochement would be possible.
The president of the LIOT group, Bertrand Pancher, once identified as a potential ally, called for ” the responsibility “ of Mrs. Borne, telling her to ” resign ” : “This is not a personal attack, but you are clearly identified now as the representative of a technocratic system and concentration of powers which imagines that one can govern without Parliament, without the bodies intermediaries and without the people. »
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