The French National Assembly rejected on Monday a new motion of censure filed by France Insoumise (LFI), Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s party, against the government over the draft 2023 budget for Social Security.
«The motion of censure not being approved, the fourth part and the whole of the draft law on the financing of social security for 2023 is considered approved in new reading,» said the president of the French National Assembly, Yael Braun-Pivet, according to the official Twitter profile of the body.
The motion, supported by 93 parliamentarians, has been presented by Mathilde Panot, of the French left-wing party after the French Prime Minister, Élisabeth Borne, activated once again on Friday Article 49.3 of the Constitution to approve a budget text without a vote.
The New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) has assured Monday in a statement that the French government has used this resource on as many as six occasions in less than a month. «We will never get used to these authoritarian methods,» it has indicated.
For his part, Borne has indicated, in the framework of the vote, that LFI’s «maneuvers» «contribute nothing to democracy.» «The Social Security and the health of our fellow citizens deserve better than posturing and excesses,» he said, according to the official Twitter account of the French parliamentary channel.
The main opposition groups, La France Insoumise, of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, and Rassemblement Nationale, of Marine Le Pen, have been the promoters of several motions of censure in recent weeks which, for the moment, have not obtained the necessary votes to be approved.
