The New Popular Front (NFP) and National Rally have cried out this Wednesday in the National Assembly against the Prime Minister Michel Barnierat the start of the debate on a motion of censure that will foreseeably put an end to what the leader far-right Marine Le Pen has described as an “ephemeral government”.
Three months after being sworn in as prime minister, Barnier is approaching his end due to the lack of consensus on budgets. “Today we are making history,” said deputy Eric Coquerel, member of La Francia Insumisa (LFI) and speaker of a tense session, from the lectern.
Coquerel has reiterated that the current government is based on an “insult” to voters that in the last legislative elections they placed the left as the bloc with the most seats in the National Assembly, although no party or political family alone has a sufficient majority.
The LFI deputy has accused Barnier of not negotiating with the New Popular Front the budget reforms which, according to the prime minister, France needs. He did propose some concessions, “but with the extreme right,” Coquerel lamented to justify the foreseeable fall of the Executive.
For her part, Le Pen has reproached Barnier for his “sectarianism” and “dogmatism”, in a fiery speech in which she assured that the Government and the president, Emmanuel Macron, have drawn up some public accounts that punish the middle and working classamong other things with tax increases.
“The budget that we reject today not only fails to fulfill (the prime minister’s) promises. It has no direction or vision. It is a technocratic budget that continues downhill, being careful not to touch the totem pole of uncontrolled immigration,” he added, in a clear allusion to one of the main axes of the National Group’s political program.
Alliance between groups
The motion will succeed thanks to a shared front between the left and the extreme rightsomething that Le Pen herself has said does not bring her special “joy” but that, in her opinion, is “forced” by the “institutions.” Together, the two families exceed the absolute majority that the initiative needs to move forward.
Once the debate is concluded, voting will begin and The results will be known around 8:00 p.m.according to the ‘BFMTV’ network. If the motion of censure succeeds, as forecasts suggest, it will mean the fall of the Government and President Macron will have to look for another person to replace Barnier.
Le Pen: “We are going to end a government of appearances”
The leader of the far right, Marine Le Pen, announced that They will vote on the motion of censure this Wednesday to end “a government of appearances” that he wanted to “prolong the policies” of the president, Emmanuel Macron, and that “through intransigence, dogmatism and sectarianism he has prevented the slightest concession” to the opposition.
“The policy of chaos would be not to end this Government”assured before the plenary session of the National Assembly, that with his group of 140 deputies has the key to overthrow Michel Barnier’s Executive.
The far-right leader accused the prime minister of relying on the same recipes as Macron, “disauthorized at the polls” in the last legislative elections, which turned him into “a government devoid of democratic foundations“.
He assured that Barnier rejected his group’s demands in matter ofimmigration, the fight against insecurity and the protection of purchasing powerand accused him of applying “cold accounting, devised in bureaucratic offices without putting himself in the place of citizens” when preparing the budget project.
“This budget goes against the Frenchespecially the weakest, those with a small pension, the sick, the working poor, those considered too rich to be helped and not poor enough to be spared the fiscal steamroller,” he assured.
Le Pen accused Macron of the delicate situation in which the country finds itself, but did not ask for his resignation: “Only he can conclude whether he can maintain himself, whether he can continue to sacrifice the fate of the French for his own pride and continue to face spite.” of the French.”
