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Tuesday, March 21, 2023
French premier Élisabeth Borne’s government has survived two no-confidence motions in National Assembly on Monday. This was triggered when it compelled with a bill about raising of the pension age from 62 to 64.
The no-confidence motions were tabled in the assembly on Monday evening — one proposed by cross-party alliance (left-wing New Ecological and Social People’s Union (NUPES) and the regionalist Liberties, Independents, Overseas and Territories (LIOT)) and another by opposition party far-right National Rally (RN).
The assembly voted the first no-confidence motion 278—295 in favor, failing the motion to pass with just nine votes (287 votes required for majority).
President Emmanuel Macron would have to form another government or hold fresh elections if it had been successful.
Second motion tabled by Marine Le Pen from RN also failed with 94—479 votes. Now that both motions have been failed, the contentious bill of pension reform will become law.
However, Éric Ciotti, who is the head of conservative Republican party (LR), announced last week that they won’t support either of the no-confidence motions.
“Nothing is solved, we’ll continue to do all we can so this reform is pulled back,” far-left La France Insoumise (LFI) leader Mathilde Panot said. Borne stated that the government had “never gone so far” to reach a compromise in order to approve the legislation.
According to Elabe’s poll on Monday, it was found that 68% of respondents wanted the no-confidence vote to pass, 68% thought that Borne should resign if the motion fails and 69% believed that using the constitutional measure, called Article 49-3, was a denial of democracy.
After the faliure of the motion to pass, Borne was yelled at by parliamentarians from the LFI group as they waved signs that read, “We’ll meet in the streets.”
Protesters set fire to garbage dumps in central Paris shortly after the motions failed. Firefighters hurried to put out blazing garbage mounds left uncollected for days due to protests on some of Paris’ most prominent avenues as demonstrators is having clash with police.