Lecornu saves the first motion of censure after sacrificing the pension reform

“My Government is not afraid of censorship,” Sébastien Lecornu defiantly declared this Thursday from the tribune of the National Assembly after listening to the presentation of the motions of the radical left of France Insoumise (LFI), first, and of the extreme right of Marine Le Pen, later. The prime minister knew that the socialist deputies would keep his second Executive standing, which he launched last weekend, after announcing the suspension of Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform.

The left’s first motion, which had the best chance of being approved, only obtained 271 votes, less than the absolute majority of 289 seats needed. The second, from the far-right National Group, is ruled out because not even the unsubmissive of Jean-Luc Mélench they support it.

Lecornu, however, had to sacrifice the president’s star measure, which raised the retirement age from 62 to 64, but not before facing harsh protests in the streets. It was the obligatory toll to pay to secure the support of the first secretary of the socialists, Olivier Faure. The prime minister, a first-time Macronist, also promised not to apply in any case article 49.3, which allows laws to be approved without a prior parliamentary vote.

“It is, evidently, a moment of truth. Do we want republican order, with debates taking place in the National Assembly, or do we want disorder?” declared Lecornu, addressing the radical left and the far right lepenista benches, whose motions only needed 24 votes to pass. “Either we enter into the debates, or we enter once and for all into the political crisis, and they must assume that.”

“History, in any case, will judge very harshly these political maneuvers in which, in essence, the tribune of the National Assembly will have been confused with an advertising tribune,” the prime minister concluded, announcing last Sunday a technical Government with profiles coming from the Macronist space – increasingly disintegrated – and the traditional right of Los Republicanos (LR).

The socialists, once again fractured by the position they must adopt against Macronism, in the same way as the Gaullist right, whose leadership refused to join Lecornu’s second government, will demand more concessions from Matignon. Deputy Laurent Baumel made it clear this Thursday at the parliamentary headquarters that, despite not supporting the motions of censure, the center-left party “does not commit to anything, much less to vote or let pass the recessive and unfair budget that its ministers have presented to us.”

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