the National Rally will support a possible motion of censure from the Republicans

National Rally (RN) deputy Jean-Philippe Tanguy assured Sunday that his party would support a possible motion of censure tabled by Les Républicains to bring down the government after the 2023 budget slippage. “We will vote for it, obviously”said the MP on BFMTV, deeming it necessary to “electroshock” to face a “emergency situation”.

“We must make this government face its responsibilities. We must censor it”, added this executive from the National Rally, who wanted this motion of censure to be tabled before the European elections on June 9. In the National Assembly, the RN group has 88 deputies, while a motion of censure must gather 289 votes to be adopted and cause the fall of the government.

“Red lines” clearly exposed

In a daily interview The Parisianthe president of LR, Eric Ciotti, set on Saturday the “red lines” of its political formation (tax increases, deindexation of pensions to inflation, health spending) beyond which the party “don’t hesitate[a] not” to file a motion of censure against the government.

LR has long threatened to censure the government, but until now it has largely refrained from joining the vote on the motions of censure tabled by the opposition during the examination of the latest finance bills. . France’s public deficit reached 5.5% of GDP in 2023, according to INSEE, or 15.8 billion euros more than the executive had planned.