The authorities overcomes two motions of censure from LFI and the RN on its power roadmap | EUROtoday

Sébastien Lecornu, unsurprisingly, overcame the 2 motions of censure filed by the National Rally (RN) and La France insoumise (LFI) to protest in opposition to the publication by decree of the federal government’s power roadmap, Wednesday February 25.

Invoking the “respect for Parliament”the Prime Minister had made the examination of those two motions a prerequisite for the federal government reshuffle. The major outgoing determine, the Minister of Culture Rachida Dati, candidate for Paris City Hall, additionally made her departure official on Wednesday night simply after the failure of the motions of censure.

The “rebellious” movement of censure obtained 108 votes, removed from the 289 wanted to deliver down the federal government. An excellent majority of the environmentalist group (29 deputies out of 38) voted for the movement, as did 6 members of the communist and abroad group, and a couple of of the PS group. The RN’s movement of censure, not supported by the left, had beforehand obtained 140 votes, together with these of its allies from the Ciottist group, and a member of the Republican Right group.

The RN, opposite to its behavior when it itself submits a movement, didn’t vote for that of LFI, the deputy Jean-Philippe Tanguy invoking “the indecency of the behavior, the assumed and re-assumed support of the “rebellious” to a hateful seditious militia” after the demise of radical far-right activist Quentin Deranque in Lyon.

These motions aimed to denounce the federal government’s new power technique unveiled on February 12 by decree, after three years of intense debates and numerous postponements. Emphasizing the relaunch of the consumption of carbon-free electrical energy, significantly of nuclear origin, to switch fossil fuels which can be pricey to import, the multi-year power program additionally famous a lesser deployment of onshore wind and solar energy.

In phrases of type, the audio system RN and LFI each denounced the federal government’s alternative to make use of a decree fairly than a legislation to implement its multi-year power program. “When the Macronists lose with the rules of democracy, they choose to go through with this PPE3. Your illiberal drift is total”castigated Jean-Philippe Tanguy (RN). “It’s a new kind of 49.3 that you are imposing on the country”added Maxime Laisney (LFI).

“Overthrowing a government will not produce a megawatt hour,” Lecornu defended

Basically, RN and LFI are diametrically opposed on the stability between nuclear power and renewable energies. The first deplore of their movement “a decreasing policy which accelerates intermittent energies, lies about nuclear power and poses a major risk to public finances”.

The latter, quite the opposite, remorse “massive relaunch of nuclear power”and a “unprecedented brake on the development of renewable energies”, “the only ones that can replace fossil fuels in the short term and allow us to respond to the climate emergency”.

The head of presidency crushed everybody in his response, seeing in these motions “the demonstration of unnecessary political disorder”. “Overthrowing a government will not produce a megawatt hour”he mentioned, castigating “invented figures” on the facet of the RN and accusing LFI of “prefer to import Russian gas [plutôt] than producing French carbon-free nuclear electricity ».

The Socialist Party, which had announced that it would not vote for the LFI motion, affirmed through MP Karim Benbrahim that it did not want to “give up launching new nuclear capabilities”believing that this is able to weigh “a major risk to our security of supply”.