Why the censure motion has little chance of passing – The World

Why the censure motion has little chance of passing – The World

Le Monde | 02/18/2015 at 12:47 • Updated 18/02/2015 at 3:59 p.m. | By Alexandre Lechenet

Flowing logically from the use of paragraph 3 of Article 49 of the Constitution, the Assembly will vote Thursday 19 February, a motion of censure against the government. Filed by the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) and the Union of Democrats and Independents (IDU), it has little chance of passing. The censure motion, if approved, results in the resignation of the government. Never, however, a motion of censure has been adopted after the use of 49-3

Read our explanations. Recourse to 49-3 on the Macron law: it will happen to the Assembly and the government

The Socialist Group has almost absolute majority

288 deputies With the election of Frédéric Barbier in Doubs, the Socialist Party (PS) is only a vote of an absolute majority. It has 288 socialist deputies and Related it would suffice to one more vote for the censure motion is rejected. The absolute majority is indeed 289. Socialists can also count on the support of radicals and related, a strong group of 18 deputies.

The opposition is far from Account

228 deputies The UMP and Allies group – which has 198 members – and IDU group – which has 30 – are the two groups to have tabled the motion of censure. All these MPs should logically vote. You can also add some of the non-attached – they are 9. Among them are Sylvie Andrieux Thévenoud and Thomas, former socialist excluded group

Left Opposition. is not sufficient

The group of Democratic and Republican Left (GDR), which brings together members of the Left Front (FG) announced by its president, André Chassaigne that they would vote in favor of the motion of censure. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who is not a member, said he would not have done so, but would have tried to make a “vote of no confidence left” . But it must be 58 MPs to table a motion of censure, and the Communist party has only 15.

Socialist slingers and environmentalists, many oppose Macron bill will not go to vote for a motion of censure against the government. The scope is not the same as voting against the law. Stéphane Le Foll, spokesman of the government, has also warned that those who voted against “did not have their place in PS” . In a motion of censure, only count votes against, which could allow disgruntled abstain without endangering the government.