Opposition parties in France’s National Assembly, including Marine Le Pen’s populist National Rally and the centrist Leo Group, submitted motions of no confidence in President Emmanuel Macron’s government on Friday after it used a controversial mechanism to pass a controversial pension increase. Age without a vote on Thursday.
The fate of the government of Emmanuel Macron, who once declared he would rule France like Jupiter, the Roman king of the gods, was thrown into question Friday as a growing coalition across the political spectrum lined up at the table for censure proceedings in his government in response to Prime Minister Elizabeth Bourne invoking Article 49.3. of the constitution to pass legislation to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 without a vote after it looked like he would not get a majority in the National Assembly.
If some measure of censure is adopted, President Macron’s minority government in the National Assembly will collapse, and Prime Minister Elisabeth Bourne will be forced to resign, raising questions about Macron’s political future just a year into his second term in office. Le Parisien reports.
Expect riots: Macron Gouvet uses constitutional loophole to avoid voting and pass higher retirement agehttps://t.co/D7tup934Vx
– BreitbartLondon March 16, 2023
At the moment, the right-wing populist National Rally, led by Marine Le Pen, and the L’Eute group of centrist deputies in the French parliament have introduced a motion of no confidence.
In a statement, R.N He said: “While the French largely show their opposition to this reform, the National Representation has not, at any time, been able to vote on this text, which, despite the legality of the process, is a serious attack on democratic principles.”
The proposal by Liot, a small group of just 20 NA members made up of center-left, center-right, and Corsican nationalist parties, was signed by the NUPES coalition led by far-left socialist Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who is often compared to Bernie Sanders in America. Or former Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn in Britain.
“Voting on this proposal will allow us to get out of a deep political crisis,” said Lyot Group Chairman Bertrand Puncher.
No longer a sitting member of the council, Melenchon said, “We have decided to give censors the greatest opportunity possible, to withdraw our motion in favor of that of LIOT, a decision the group made last night.”
“The creeping filth is the clearest sign of the widespread anger over the bill to raise the French retirement age by two years.” https://t.co/RDIzSXdE38
Breitbart News March 14, 2023
For a motion of no confidence in the National Assembly to succeed, it must receive 287 affirmative votes. The Leute Group, the National Caucus, and the NUPES Coalition collectively have 259 members of the Parliamentary Body.
Crucially, the founding right-wing Republicans (LR), which has been instrumental in preventing Macron’s minority government from obtaining a majority for pension reform plans, have not officially backed either proposal.
LR President Eric Ciotti said his group would not support any motion of censure, however, claiming that “the crisis situation in the country will not tolerate…a fatal blow to our democracy”.
However, it is not clear if all of the 61-member party will vote in full swing, with the party’s third-highest-ranking member, General Secretary Aurelien Brady, saying all MPs are “completely free to take part in another oversight motion.”
If the disparate political factions band together to pass a proposal, not only will pension reform be rejected, but the government will fall and Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne will have to tender her resignation to President Macron, who in turn will likely be forced. to dissolve Parliament.
Paris is burning… Hundreds arrested after rioters set rubbish bonfires and clash with police after Macron tried to pass pension reforms without a vote https://t.co/3XUcsc6hQf
– BreitbartLondon March 17, 2023
Pension reforms, which would raise the retirement age to 64 – an age still lower than other European countries such as Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom – have sparked nationwide union-organised protests, which have seen some of the largest demonstrations in decades.
Spontaneous Thursday night protests erupted across the country on Thursday after the government protested the loophole. Rioters clashed with police, smashed shop windows, and set fires in cities such as Paris, Nantes and Marseille, resulting in some 310 arrests.
The rioters’ ability to start fires was greatly enhanced by the rubbish workers’ strike, which saw some 10,000 tons of waste left on the streets of Paris.
Protests continued throughout the day Friday, as activists tried to block a major ring road around the French capital, and others, including V Calais portresponsible for traffic across the English Channel.
Paris radicals clash with police, fanning flames as Macron’s retirement age increases https://t.co/HBYGys6ctm
– BreitbartLondon March 12, 2023
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