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At the National Assembly, in Paris, May 21, 2024.

A couple of days earlier than the European election, the general public funds file returns to the National Assembly. On Monday June 3, it rejected a primary movement of censure filed by La France insoumise (LFI), which meant to denounce the nation's budgetary state of affairs, six days earlier than the European elections. The movement, supported by the left and the National Rally (RN), acquired 222 votes, removed from absolutely the majority of 289 votes essential to convey down the federal government of Gabriel Attal.

The deputies then voted on a movement of censure tabled by the RN, which was additionally rejected, receiving solely 89 votes. These two motions, which had little probability of being adopted, primarily serve to hammer house their radical opposition to the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron.

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The oppositions “look for disorder” political and financial with such acts, Gabriel Attal had denounced just a little earlier on Franceinfo, over the last week earlier than the June 9 election, which might see the far proper obtain a document rating.

While the time was for normal mobilization in all headquarters this weekend, the RN continued its development with 33% of voting intentions, Renaissance fell to 16% and the PS-Place publique checklist stabilized at 14.5% in line with the fifth wave of the survey carried out by the Ipsos institute, in partnership with the Sciences Po Political Research Center, the Montaigne Institute, the Jean Jaurès Foundation and ” The world “.

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“Unprecedented austerity”

The motions of censure from LFI and the RN have been tabled to protest towards the federal government's finances cuts by decree in February, with out submitting a amending finance invoice to Parliament. Co-signed by communists and environmentalists, that of La France insoumise castigates “unprecedented austerity”, “unbearable on a social level and ineffective on a budgetary level”after the ten billion euros of credit for 2024 already frozen because of the slippage within the deficit.

While France has simply suffered a downgrade of its sovereign score on Friday by the S&P company, “AA” has “AA−”, the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, repeated his financial line. It excludes all “tax increase” in 2025, to the nice dismay of the left, which is demanding to tax “ultrarich” and the “superprofits” firms.

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Within Marine Le Pen's troops, Sébastien Chenu will current the movement of the National Rally, which accuses the federal government of getting “deliberately undervalued” the deficit. The train can even give Gabriel Attal the chance to defend his document within the National Assembly simply earlier than the European elections. With, in everybody's minds, the prospect of a future try at censorship extra threatening for the Prime Minister, maybe within the fall in the course of the examination of the finances, carried by the independents of the LIOT group or by the LR deputies, who usually elevate this risk with out carrying it out.

Emmanuel Macron, on the entrance line for the Normandy Landing commemorations, will enter the European marketing campaign on Thursday. He plans to grant an interview to France 2 and TF1 reside from Caen within the 8 p.m. information, throughout which he’ll converse concerning the European elections and the state of affairs in Ukraine and Gaza.

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