the three groups on the left file a motion of joint censure

Unsympathetic, communist and socialist deputies decided Friday, July 27 to overcome their divisions to file a joint motion of censure against the government on the Benalla affair, a first that does not mean, to hear them, the return of the union of the left. The representatives of the groups Nouvelles Gauche (PS), GDR (PCF) and LFI met early in the afternoon at the Assembly to reconcile their violins and effectively tabled their motion around 4.30 pm

The text of the three groups left will be the subject of a joint debate on Tuesday, with the motion tabled by the group Republicans (LR) on Thursday. But there will be two explanations of vote and two votes, the outcome of which is already known. To be adopted, a vote of censure must be approved by at least a majority of the elected members of the Assembly (289), but the deputies The Republic in Motion (LRM) alone have an absolute majority, with 312 elected. [19659004] The chairman of the LR group, Christian Jacob, will defend the motion of the right. The deputies of the three leftist groups said they agreed that the first signatory of the motion was André Chbadaigne, the president of the group GDR, M ^me Rabault emphasizing that "all group presidents will be able to express themselves " Tuesday.

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Despite a meeting of almost two hours, they badured that finding an agreement was "very simple" explaining having taken time to write the text. This text, made public on Twitter by the group New Left evokes "a political crisis" and "serious dysfunction at the top of the State" evoking in detail the different episodes of the Benalla affair. And to conclude:

"The trust that the people must place in the government and its institutions is therefore compromised. The National Assembly must be able to express itself on the responsibility of the government and remove the confidence that its behavior has broken down.

"A right and a left in this country"

The rebellious ones were the first, eight days ago, to propose the filing of a motion of censure, themselves not being able to deposit it alone, since they are only 17 and that the filing of a motion requires 58 signatures (at least 10% of the elected representatives of the Assembly).

Thursday morning, the first secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure, still seemed far from to join this solution. "I think this is not the right way to proceed" estimated on RMC the member for Seine-et-Marne about the motion filed by LR. But the PS deputies did not want to remain spectators of the LR motion.

"All day we exchanged on the subject. Olivier Faure had the question decided by convening an extraordinary national office of the party " said the member of the Val-de-Marne Luc Carvounas.

" The idea is to affirm that there is a right and a left in this country. We were a good majority not to want to mix with LR (by voting his motion) (…) Olivier Faure, he listens, his position evolves " decrypts a member of the national office.

Alliance" punctual

Jean-Luc Mélenchon applauded Friday morning the decision of the PS, welcoming a "ambiguity raised" on its political line, and the emergence of a "arc Republican ". "The Socialist Party is now a front-line opposition party to the government" he hailed by recalling that in the vote of confidence in the government a year ago, only three socialists had voted

"We have not changed at all from a year ago, but we are also able to negotiate compromises" Valérie Rabault replied. There is no question for the Socialists to give the impression that they are in tow of Mr. Mélenchon. "Everyone keeps his specificities. One signs a sufficiently consensual text so that everybody finds it there " underlines M ^me Rabault ..

This motion, " it is not the plural left " it is "punctual" adds Mr. Faure. Proof of these persistent differences, the group of rebellious should vote the text of the Republicans, which probably will not do the socialists.