The hard-left France Unbowed (LFI) submitted two no confidence motions on Monday immediately after Bayrou used a constitutional clause known as “49.3” to pass key budget bills in the Assemblée Nationale without a vote.
François Bayrou, the French prime minister, is almost certain to survive a vote of no confidence on Wednesday after the move that threatened to topple the government – for the second time in two months – lost the support of socialists and the far right.
French PM François Bayrou expected to survive confidence vote Bayrou’s decision to use constitutional clause known as ‘49.3’ prompted immediate no confidence motion.
The decision by the Socialist party (PS) not to support the censure motion infuriated leftwing partners in the New Popular Front (NFP) and could torpedo the alliance that collectively won the most seats in the last general election.
Leftwing MP Alexis Corbière, thrown out of LFI after disagreeing with Mélenchon before last year’s general election, said the PS decision was “a political and strategic error”, but stopped short of criticising the socialists.
