Without an absolute majority, the government of Elisabeth Borne is forced to seek majorities on a case-by-case basis, according to the texts.
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It will not bend to use, for lack of a majority. Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne “will not seek the confidence of parliamentarians” Wednesday, during his general policy statement to the Assembly and the Senate, announced Monday, July 4 the new government spokesperson, Olivier Véran.
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“We are not certain that the conditions for this trust would have been met (…) We will work text by text” to build majorities, he said after the first Council of Ministers of the new Borne government. “Trust cannot be decreed a priori, it is patiently built text by text”launched Olivier Véran, who estimated that the hand was “stretched with benevolence” opposition parliamentarians.
Without an absolute majority, the government of Elisabeth Borne is forced to seek majorities on a case-by-case basis, according to the texts. All the Prime Ministers of the Fifth Republic complied with the exercise of the declaration of general policy, but several of them, like Edith Cresson and Michel Rocard, did not have it followed by a vote of confidence.
However, this decision does not pass on the side of the group La France insoumise, which said it wanted to table a motion of censure on Wednesday, which requires the signature of at least a tenth of the deputies. It must then be adopted by an absolute majority to overthrow the government.
“We do not mistreat democracy with impunity”tweeted the leader of the LFI group in the National Assembly, Mathilde Panot, who intends to do “come by force” the prime minister “before Parliament”.