Organizes opposition to Macron trying to overthrow his government

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Paris, March 17 (EFE) By decree to reform the controversial pension system.

On the left, the leader of La Francia Insumisa (LFI), Jean-Luc Melenchon, announced on Friday that his party would drop its motion of censure and would support the motion announced by a parliamentary group called LIOT (Freedom). , Independents, Overseas and Territories), consisting of about twenty centrist, regional and national deputies (out of 577 deputies in the Council).

In an interview with France Info radio station, Mélénchon justified this strategy to give more possibilities of ousting the prime minister’s chief executive, Elisabeth Bourne, and insisted that the ultimate goal was to bring down pension reform.

He denounced that “this provision has no parliamentary legitimacy”, before insisting that it was implemented by a “minority” government in the country.

After Bourne this Thursday invoked Article 49.3 of the Constitution to skip a vote on reform in the House, where the necessary absolute majority was not secured, the opposition can put forward motions of censure that, if successful, would mean the downfall of the government as well as the nullification of the reform itself.

The leader of the far right, Marine Le Pen, immediately announced that her party, the National Group (RN), would bring forward its own motion of censure, but would also support any other party allowing the overthrow of the Bourne executive.

RN chief Jordan Bardella reiterated this morning on France Info station that they will support other censure motions like LIOT because their goal is to remove Bourne: “I think he should go.”

For any of the motions of censure to be submitted to succeed (the deadline to formalize them ends at 3:30 pm local time (2:30 pm GMT), a vote of 289 MPs would be necessary, i.e. the support of Lewte, the coalition, would not suffice.

It may be necessary for some deputies of Los Republicanos (LR), the traditional right-wing party, to distance themselves from the official position of their formation, which has been shown to be in complete decay with the pensions debate, for years. It was he who advocated reform to delay the retirement age.

“All premises are possible,” declared Aurelien Pradier, the visible head of the House of Representatives opposed to reform, whose main focus is delaying the minimum retirement age from 62 to 64. EFE

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