The French began to know the song of article 49.3. But would the concept become Has Been? Now give way to 49.2. For the first time since his arrival in Matignon, Prime Minister François Bayrou used 49.3 to have State budgets (PLF) and Social Security (PLFSS) adopt. If rebellious France has announced a censorship motion whose examination should be held on Wednesday, the Socialist Party has not joined it and for its part announced wanting to file a motion of so -called “spontaneous” censorship by using the ‘Article 49.2 of the Constitution. But what about?
Article 49.2 allows deputies to file a so -called spontaneous motion unlike article 49.3 which allows to deposit a censorship motion caused in reaction to the adoption of a text. To be taken into account, the spontaneous motion must be signed by at least one tenth of the deputies of the Assembly, that is to say 58. Before being voted under the same conditions as its cousin, or by the absolute majority of deputies (289) , within 48 hours after filing.
This motion which should be examined after the adoption of the budget is above all “symbolic and political”, said the PS. She is also unlikely to succeed. Indeed, this reaction from the Socialist Party follows the remarks of the Prime Minister on his migration “feeling of submersion” made during an interview with LCI a week earlier and which had angered the left. Little luck therefore that the national rally or the Republicans, positioned on the question, goes in the direction of this censorship motion via 49.2.
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To date, only one government has been overthrown by this procedure. In 1962, within the Pompidou government, the deputies opposed the Charles de Gaulle project aimed at establishing the election of the President of the Republic by direct universal suffrage. It was this motion that had led to the dissolution of the National Assembly by the latter.
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