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After the 49.3 drawn on Wednesday, October 19 by the government to have its Budget adopted, here is the motion of censure tabled. Opposition MPs had 24 hours to do so. But those of Nupes did it in the minute, without suspense.
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It is therefore the 113th motion of censure tabled since the beginning of the Fifth Republic, a so-called “provoked” motion, since by deciding to have recourse to paragraph 3 of article 49, to have its draft finance law the government assumes its responsibility. A motion therefore provoked, and not spontaneous, as it can also be on the initiative of parliamentarians.
But let’s talk about what’s next: the motion of censure will now have to wait at least 48 hours, but no more than three days before being debated in the hemicycle, before being voted on. It is the Conference of Presidents of the Assembly that will take care of the final preparations, because it will be necessary to choose the date, organize one or more debates, distribute the speaking times and determine the order of the discussion. Except that in reality, this motion has very little chance of being adopted. In reality, out of 113 times, it was adopted only once, in 1962. The parliamentarians were then opposed to the election of the President of the Republic by universal suffrage.
Still, it is a relatively harmless weapon: if it only takes 58 deputies to table it, it takes 289 – an absolute majority – to be adopted. An almost impossible task. But not useless for all that: this motion of censure has the merit of bringing democracy to life by provoking debate, above all by pushing the government, if not to obtain consent, at least to try not to achieve consensus against it. , and thus prevent it from overstepping the bounds.