The Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, didn’t even trouble to go as much as the rostrum of the Assembly. The sobriety of his speech was matched solely by the vacancy of the Hemicycle which confronted him on the finish of the morning of Friday January 23: simply what was wanted to announce that the federal government was as soon as once more taking duty for the expenditure a part of the finance invoice (PLF) for 2026. The head of the chief thus lower brief any debate on this “P2” which can subsequently by no means have been mentioned in session by MPs after three months of budgetary debates. La France insoumise (LFI) and its environmentalist and communist allies have already expressed their intention to desk a brand new movement of censure.
In the morning, the federal government of Sébastien Lecornu had simply escaped two of them, deposed by these identical left-wing teams on one facet and by the National Rally (RN) on the opposite. Neither textual content managed to acquire an absolute majority, failing respectively with 269 votes (out of 288) and 142. The first was voted unanimously by the elected LFI, the RN and their Ciottist allies and by a majority of ecologists and communists. The final result was in truth identified upfront for the reason that elected socialists had introduced a number of days in the past that they might not vote for this censorship.
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