The leader of the National Rally (RN) Marine Le Pen announced the filing of a motion of censure against the Lecornu 2 government on Monday.
“The President of the Republic must announce as quickly as possible the dissolution of the National Assembly,” added the far-right leader, assuring that early elections would lead to a victory for her party.
The first secretary of the Socialist Party (PS) Olivier Faure made a simple tweet “No Comment” (no comment, in French).
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On BFMTV, the party’s general secretary, Pierre Jouvet, estimated that “there were not very good signs being given”.
He recalled that without suspension of the pension reform announced in the general policy declaration on Tuesday, “the PS will censure the government which will fall in the process”.
The rose party largely holds the keys to the survival of this government, to the extent that all oppositions threaten it with censorship.
The boss of environmentalists Marine Tondelier wrote on X “I will not comment this evening. Everyone understands what I think.”
MP François Ruffin, ironically about the previous Lerconu government, which lasted 14 hours, wrote on
On the side of the Communists, the senator and candidate for mayor of Paris Ian Brossat estimated on
He notably targeted Rachida Dati who is also running for the capital, returned to the Ministry of Culture despite being implicated in two legal cases.
The Republicans exclude the six LR ministers who entered the Lecornu II government, the RN will file a motion of censure on Monday
A crisis at LR, Retailleau destabilized?
Six members of the party, and not the least, challenged the new president by responding to Sébastien Lecornu’s call.
In the process, the party announced their exclusion and the immediate cessation of “their functions in our governing bodies”. A meeting of these bodies is scheduled “in the next few days to make a definitive decision”.
Among the rebels, the Minister of Agriculture Annie Genevard, who until now occupied the strategic position of president of the national investiture commission (CNI), responsible for nominating the LR candidates for the municipal elections next March.
“I remain fully faithful to my party and my convictions, as I have always been,” she said on the social network X.
Returned to Transport, Philippe Tabarot wrote to his colleagues in the Senate telling them that he was “consistent with the position that was that of the Republicans until October 5”.
As for Rachida Dati, she is reappointed to Culture, even though she has just been nominated by the Republicans as a candidate for mayor of Paris.
The decision to replace these three ministers weakens the presidency of Bruno Retailleau.
“The king is naked”, comments an LR executive who judges that the president of LR “is in his bunker, without the levers on the real world”.
The three other LRs to join the government are all deputies: Vincent Jeanbrun (Housing), Sébastien Martin (Industry) and Nicolas Forissier (Foreign trade and attractiveness).
These appointments give the impression that Sébastien Lecornu played on the internal divisions at LR, he who had separately received Tuesday at Matignon Bruno Retailleau and his rival Laurent Wauquiez, boss of LR deputies, who has repeated several times in recent days that a “large majority” of his group supported participation in the government.
“He has the group and the ministers: it is Mr. Wauquiez who actually controls the party,” comments a former LR who joined the ranks of Eric Ciotti’s UDR.
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With around fifty elected officials, LR deputies occupy a pivotal position in the Assembly and constitute, alongside the Macronist bloc, the second component of the common base.
On the front line in the event of dissolution, they were largely in favor of participation in the Lecornu 2 government, unlike the senators who supported the position of Bruno Retailleau.
After the dissolution of 2024, many LR deputies had saved their seats against the RN in rural constituencies, largely thanks to their local roots.
Many do not feel indebted to the party, whose name often did not appear on electoral posters, and fear that they will not be able to contain a new surge from the far right in the event of early legislative elections.
