The LR deputy for Lot Aurélien Pradié, who led the revolt on the right on the pension reform, announced Monday that he would vote for the cross-party censure motion, which according to him could gather “about fifteen” LR votes.
“Yes I will vote for the motion of censure carried by Charles de Courson” (Liot) but “not that of the National Rally, it is obvious”, he assured on Europe 1, a few hours before the National Assembly decides on these two motions.
“If it is necessary to go through this electroshock and this political alert, I assume it”, added Mr. Pradié, ensuring to act “as a patriot and not as a political opponent”.
This vote of censorship is “a step, it will not be enough” and “it is now necessary for the President of the Republic to have an initiative to bring the country together”, estimated Mr. Pradié who denounced a law “poisoned, made full of democratic vices”.
According to him, the number of LR deputies ready to vote for censorship are “perhaps fifteen, I don’t know if there are more”.
On Monday, the deputy of Pas-de-Calais Pierre-Henri Dumont assured that he would vote for the motion of the Liot group, as did his colleague from Haut-Rhin Raphaël Schellenberger “given the repeated comments of the government and the majority this weekend. end”. Elected from Cantal, Jean-Yves Bony will vote for the centrist motion “without qualms”.
The deputy of Oise Maxime Minot assured on France 2 that he would also vote, “for consistency”, the motion of the National Rally “which is identical”. Same tone for his Moselle colleague Fabien Di Filippo.
Over the weekend, other LR deputies had explained that they would vote yes, in particular Ian Boucard, Pierre Cordier, Francis Dubois and Fabrice Brun. However, we remain far enough from the thirty LR votes necessary for the motion to pass.
Especially since the party’s staff is firmly opposed to any motion of censure.
“The vast majority” of LR deputies will not vote for them, assured Monday on BFM Cote d’Azur the president of LR Eric Ciotti.
The boss of the LR deputies Olivier Marleix called his colleagues to “responsibility” by estimating in Le Figaro that those who vote for a motion “will serve the soup to Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Marine Le Pen”.
“The responsibility is not to abandon the voice of the people to the extremes. I refuse that the alternative tomorrow is Marine Le Pen or Jean-Luc Mélenchon”, affirmed Mr. Pradié.
The Republicans are at the center of all attention before the vote scheduled from 4:00 p.m. “Everything is based on the vote of my Republican friends hostile to this text”, assured France inter Charles de Courson.
“Let’s hope that the Republicans find their minds”, launched, on the contrary, the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire in Le Parisien.
These divergent positions have aggravated the divisions in the party. Monday in Le Progrès, the pro-reform deputy Alexandre Vincendet estimated that “an LR deputy who would vote for a motion of censure is no longer entitled to sit among us”.
03/20/2023 14:28:42 – Paris (AFP) – © 2023 AFP
