Reshuffle: Elisabeth Borne will not submit to the vote of confidence

Is the vote of confidence compulsory? And what is it for? “It serves to legitimize the government before Parliament, before the National Assembly. But this vote is not compulsory. It is very risky when you do not have an absolute majority and this is the case of the majority group Presidential Together! which only has 250 elected. So we have to seek support from the side of the oppositions like the LR or the RN. Too risky for Elisabeth Borne, who has decided not to ask for the vote of confidence of deputies “, explains Gilles Papin, from the writing of franceinfo. It is the fifth time in the history of the Fifth Republic that a Prime Minister does not seek the confidence of parliament. “The first of them was Maurice Couve de Murville in 1968. Then it was Michel Rocard in 1988, following the legislative elections after the election of François Mitterrand. Ditto for his socialist successors, Edith Cresson and Pierre Bérégovoy”he continues.

On the one hand there is therefore the vote of confidence, on the other the motion of no confidence which is tabled by Nupes. “It is article 49.1 of the constitution, which teaches us that the National Assembly can question the responsibility of the government by voting for a motion of censure. This is what the deputies of the Nupes on Wednesday. That is to say, try to overthrow the executive. But for that, you also need 289 deputies, and there, it is much harder to obtain because the deputies who oppose are considered as support of the government. We can therefore consider that on Wednesday, Elisabeth Borne and her government will remain in place”concludes Gilles Papin.