US EditionBayrou Survives Another No-Confidence Vote
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The National Assembly rejected a new motion of censure presented by the Socialists against Prime Minister François Bayrou.
French PM Bayrou survives no-confidence motion
The motion − put forward by the Socialist Party after the collapse of talks on pension reforms − received just 189 votes out of the 289 needed to bring down the government. It had broad support across the left but failed to receive the backing of the far right.
After a long request from almost all of the House against the Prime Minister, the motion of censure was rejected, the RN having refused to vote on it. Between the president of MoDem and the Socialists, the war is indeed declared.
The French Prime Minister, François Bayrou, managed to circumvent on Tuesday a new motion of censure to his government, the eighth to be presented in Parliament since he was appointed to office last December, six months ago. On this occasion, it was at the initiative of the Socialist Party, and although it was supported by the rest of the groups of the left-wing bloc (Insumes France, environmentalists and communists), it did not gather sufficien…
The Socialist Party (PS) presented Tuesday afternoon a motion of censure against the government of François Bayrou, Prime Minister, and Emmanuel Macron, President, confirming the state of decomposition of the French political landscape. In the National Assembly of 577 seats, 289 votes in favour are given. Shortly after eight o’clock in the afternoon, 189 left-wing deputies voted the censorship, automatically rejected. When the debates began in t…
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