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There is no majority in the French parliament due to two no-confidence motions against President Macron’s government. The opposition has filed the motions because next year’s budget will be approved without a vote in parliament.
Both the radical left-wing LFI party and Marine le Pen’s radical right-wing RN submitted a no-confidence vote last week. The left-wing motion failed to win a majority on Monday evening, despite RN’s support. The right-wing movement was not supported by the left and failed. With that, Macron’s government survived the votes.
‘Impossible cooperation’
Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne calls for the constitution to adopt the budget without the vote of the parliament. You offer the possibility to do this in exceptional cases.
According to her, cooperation with the opposition was impossible: they had already announced that they would vote against the budget anyway. The prime minister said earlier that the opposition had tabled thousands of amendments, which would have taken too long to address the budget.
