The motion of the left-wing alliance Nupes was ultimately supported by Marine Le Pens Rassemblement National (RN), but that was not enough. The motion of no confidence submitted by RN also came to nothing. RN had not received support from Nupes for his motion.
This means that the budget for 2023, which has been discussed for weeks, has been adopted at first reading. A motion of no confidence was also announced later on Monday on financing for social security, but that motion will also yield nothing. Since the start of the Fifth Republic in 1958, it is the first time that a parliament has to vote three motions of no confidence in one day.
The reason for the motions was the government’s announcement to push through the budget without a vote in parliament. Due to the stalled debates, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne had announced that she would invoke a special constitutional article to get the budget through parliament.
Since the June parliamentary elections, President Emmanuel Macron’s camp and the Borne government no longer have a majority in the lower house of parliament.