Le Pen spares Macron from debating leftist motion to oust him in French National Assembly

The impeachment process of French President Emmanuel Macron, promoted by the leftist France Insoumise party (LFI), will not be debated in a plenary session of the National Assembly.

This Tuesday, the Conference of Presidents decided not to include it on the agenda, especially as the leaders of the right-wing parliamentary groups and the Macronists and their centrist allies voted against it, while the far-right National Rally of Marine Le Pen took part. Not Taken. , according to parliamentary sources cited by French media.

According to the EFE agency report, a vote in favor of Le Pen could have changed the outcome of the vote. “Emmanuel Macron will no longer have to suffer a debate in the Chamber about (his) dangerous and irregular behavior” after the legislative elections, current deputy Mathilde Panot has denounced to the press. As indicated, four left-wing groups “spoke in favor” of this debate in the chamber. “So, it is Ms. Le Pen who somehow saved Mr. Macron from impeachment proceedings.”

Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s party France Insoumise has announced that it will present a new proposal.

Tuesday’s decision ends a process that had no real prospect of success, given the balance of forces in Parliament. She would need to muster the support of two-thirds of MPs, which would require Marine Le Pen’s extreme right to unite with the entire left, which has already announced it will not support what she describes. A ploy to divert the attention of the “far left”.

The attempt to remove Macron was already rejected last week by the Legislative Commission of the National Assembly, where a total of 54 deputies voted to postpone it, while 15 voted in favor of going ahead.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s party has justified the president’s refusal to nominate Lucie Castets, candidate of the progressive New Popular Front (NFP) coalition, as prime minister. The French head of state chose to appoint as Prime Minister the conservative Michel Barnier of the Republicans, a party that obtained 47 out of 577 deputies in the National Assembly, instead of the Cétats, which was the NFP’s 193, in the chamber. First block.

The initiative was presented by all LFI representatives and some communists and environmentalists, but not by socialists. It passed the first parliamentary filter on the table of the National Assembly on 17 September, thanks to the majority of the left in that instance.

Meanwhile, this Tuesday Barnier is preparing to face the first censure motion against his government presented by the New Popular Front. However, there are no signs of it prospering as Le Pen’s far right has also announced it will vote against it.

With information from EFE.