The Conference of Presidents of the Assembly provided that the motion of censure tabled by the RN against the government would be discussed at the end of the debates on the pension reform. These have no chance of ending before midnight, a deadline already deemed too early by the opposition deputies. It is therefore around 2 or 3 a.m. that the motion will be voted on, after two weeks of epic exchanges on the highly contested government project. Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne will be present, AFP learned from those around her.
This motion was tabled on Wednesday by the boss of the Rassemblement national group, Marine Le Pen, “so that the deputies opposed” to the pension reform “can express their rejection of this text”. But she has no chance of being adopted, the left having made it known that she would not bring her votes.
At midnight, cut-off time, the discussions will stop on the amendments to the pension reform and the debate on the government’s motion of censure will begin. The speaker from the RN group will speak first, before a response from Ms. Borne. Then it will be the turn of the political groups, for a total speaking time of two and a half hours, which could however not be exhausted.
The ballot will then be organized in the rooms adjoining the hemicycle, for thirty incompressible minutes. Only the deputies favorable to the adoption of the motion of censure take part in the vote. But “we can’t desert and leave the RN alone against the government”, we gritted within another opposition group, worried about the image given at the end of this sequence on pensions.
