The Assembly must examine at the beginning of next week two new motions of censure, which have no chance of being adopted. That of the RN and that of La France insoumise, filed Thursday, October 27 after the new 49.3 drawn by Elisabeth Borne on the Social Security budget. Insubordinate France is therefore going there alone, without its Nupes partners who do not wish to table a new joint motion.
Should this be seen as a blow of pressure from the rebellious? In any case, the latter did not wait to consult their partners to announce that they were filing a motion of censure at each 49.3. A systematism assumed Friday, October 28 on franceinfo by Clémence Guetté, the vice-president of the LFI group at the National Assembly: “When La France insoumise files a motion of censure, we are serious, she says. It’s to bring down this government, it’s because we’re ready to govern and we want to take their place and we want to go back to the campaign and for there to be new legislative elections. So we take the logic to the end.”
The “rebellious” therefore assume to go it alone, as if it were take it or leave it. We can read an implicit message sent to socialists, communists and environmentalists, who do not sign this new motion of censure: France insubordinate has political courage and is the main opponent of the government of Emmanuel Macron. Either: with or without you it’s a bit the same thing. “One must know what one wants”, indicated at the beginning of the week to franceinfo the “rebellious” Eric Coquerel. The tackle, here, is in this respect quite explicit.
Above all, LFI’s position reveals, once again, that the four Nupes formations do not have the same strategy, and especially not the same definition of a motion of censure. Like the National Rally, the “rebellious” are clear: they want to overthrow the government. Which is not at all the case of the communists, nor of the socialists, nor of the ecologists. “We are making it a political and symbolic gesture”, thus explains off a PS deputy. Another goes further: “LFI plays the crisis of the regime, we play parliamentarism, we do not play the politics of the worst.” For the latter, filing a motion of censure each time falls under the “circus” : “The French, he said, do not ask us for the crisis of the regime, while La France insoumise wants it. Same reservation for Yannick Jadot, who fears a “brutalization of political debate and instrumentalization of the National Rally”: “Bringing together all the opposition to bring down the government is not the position of environmentalists”.
“Should a motion of censure be tabled every 49.3? We consider that no, confirms on franceinfo Sabrina Sebaihi, Nupes deputy for Hauts-de-Seine and spokesperson for the EELV group in the National Assembly. Even under the mandate of Michel Rocard where there were 28 activations of 49.3, the right had only tabled five motions of censure. So it’s not systematic. We don’t want to trivialize the censure motion like the government trivializes 49.3.”
“We have different strategies, and this is not new: during the construction of the Nupes during the legislative elections, there were already disagreements which had been excluded from the common program.”
Sabrina Sebaihi, spokesperson for the EELV group in the National Assemblyat franceinfo
However, PS, PC and EELV, all hesitate to vote or not this new motion of censure filed by the “rebellious”. They must decide in a group meeting, where everyone should meet, at the very end of the examination of the budgetary texts. The four formations plan, there, to file a joint motion of censure for a last blow of brilliance.