For Eric Coquerel, Elisabeth Borne must resign

Without a majority in the National Assembly, can the current government continue its action? The LFI deputy, Éric Coquerel, was the first to raise the question. This Sunday he estimated that Elisabeth Borne could no longer “continue to be Prime Minister”, for lack of a “majority”, ensuring that the opposition would file “a motion of censure” against his government on July 5, the day of the declaration of general policy.

The motion of censure is the main means available to a Parliament to show its disapproval of government policy and force it to resign.

“Is Ms. Borne illegitimate? “, he was questioned on France Info. “It seems obvious to me. She’s the leader of the majority, she doesn’t have a majority. How do you want to continue being prime minister,” he said. “I do not see on what majority [Emmanuel] Macron will rely on his plans for social destruction, because he does not even have a relative majority, so I think he is preparing for a complicated five-year term, ”he said.

For her part, the Prime Minister announced that she would work “tomorrow to build a majority of action”. “There is no alternative”, she continued, because the country is in her view in an “unprecedented situation”, which “constitutes a risk”. The presidential coalition obtained the majority of seats in the Assembly (about 250), but it lacks nearly fifty to obtain an absolute majority.

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