Lecornu survives two motions of censure thanks to the socialists and after sacrificing the pension reform

“My Government is not afraid of censorship,” he declared this Thursday in a defiant tone Sébastien Lecornu after listening to the presentation of the motions of the radical left of La Francia Insumisa (LFI), first, and of the extreme right of Marine Le Penlater, in the National Assembly. The prime minister knew first-hand that the socialist deputies would keep his second Executive standing, which he launched last weekend, after announcing the suspension of the pension reform of Emmanuel Macron.

The first motion presented by the left, which had the best chance of being approved, obtained 271 votes. It did not go ahead due to a difference of 18 votes. The second, presented by the far-right National Group together with the Union of the Right for the Republic (UDR) of Eric Ciottiwas discarded because it did not even have the votes of the unsubmissive of Jean-Luc Mélenchon. It only obtained 144 votes, 18 less than the first.

Lecornu, however, had to sacrifice the president’s star measure, which raised the retirement age from 62 to 64, but not before facing harsh protests in the streets. It was the obligatory toll to pay to secure the support of the first secretary of the socialists, Olivier Faure. The prime minister, a first-time Macronist, also promised not to apply in any case article 49.3, which allows laws to be approved without a prior parliamentary vote.

Since voting discipline did not exist, however, last-minute surprises could occur in the National Assembly. In fact, seven socialist deputies voted in favor of the left-wing motion, contravening the position of the party leadership. A position that the president of the LFI parliamentary group, Mathilde Panotlamented: “Only 18 votes were missing to overthrow them.”

“It is, evidently, a moment of truth. Do we want republican order, with debates that take place in the National Assembly, or do we want disorder?” Lecornu had declared, addressing the radical left and the far right Lepenist benches. “Either we enter into the debates, or we enter once and for all into the political crisis, and they must assume that.”

“History, in any case, will judge very harshly these political maneuvers in which, in essence, the tribune of the National Assembly will have been confused with an advertising tribune,” the prime minister concluded, announcing last Sunday a technical Government with profiles coming from Macronism – increasingly disintegrated – and the traditional right of Los Republicanos (LR).

The socialists, once again fractured by the position they must adopt before Macron, in the same way as the Gaullist right, whose leadership refused to join Lecornu’s second government, will demand more concessions from Matignon.

The socialist deputy Laurent Baumel He made it clear this Thursday at the parliamentary headquarters that, despite not supporting the motions of censure, the center-left party “does not commit to anything, much less to vote or let pass the recessive and unfair budget that its ministers have presented to us.”

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