“We are not certain that the conditions for this trust would have been met (…) We will work text by text” to build majorities, explained Olivier Veran, the new government spokesman.
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It’s confirmed. 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.
“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”added Olivier Véran, who felt that the hand was “stretched with benevolence” opposition parliamentarians.
The 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 a tenth of parliamentarians. It must then be adopted by an absolute majority to effectively 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 “come by force” Prime Minister in Parliament.
Olivier Véran also recalled that the choice not to solicit a vote of confidence following a declaration of general policy was not “not a first” in the history of the Fifth Republic, citing Michel Rocard, Edith Cresson and Pierre Bérégovoy who, Prime Ministers under François Mitterrand, had not had recourse to it either.