The new prime minister of France Gabriel Atal he faces the first impeachment motion in the French National Assembly, without much risk despite the fact that the French government does not have an absolute majority in parliament.

The motion of censure was submitted by all the left factions. She has almost no chance of getting the required 289 votes to topple the government, since the right and far-right have no intention of supporting her.

Consequently, interest is focused on the tone of the discussions at the meeting and the response of the 34-year-old prime minister, just before he leaves for Germany where he will meet with Chancellor Olaf Solz.

The left accuses the prime minister, who was appointed in January by President Emmanuel Macron, of not asking for a vote of confidence after delivering the platform statements last Tuesday.

He also accuses Gabriel Attal of a “war on the poor” with his announcements on scrapping the solidarity levy and changing social housing regulations.

Last Tuesday in the National Assembly, many speakers criticized the golden youth of the new prime minister and his education in the schools of the French elite.

“You are defending France at the rond-point of the Saintes-Élysées,” the head of the socialist group, Boris Vallot, told him.

Farmers’ anger, which dominated the French news with tractor blockades across France for several days until the end of last week, will be another topic of today’s debate on the motion of censure.

On the far right, Marine Le Pen has hinted that the National Alarm will not vote in favor of the motion of censure. The same applies to the MPs of the right-wing Les Républicains (LR) faction.

“We are in the opposition, we had no intention of giving a vote of confidence. But to vote on the motion of censure before the government even starts, that doesn’t seem serious to us either,” said the head of the LR parliamentary group, Olivier Marlex, yesterday.

So today Gabriel Atal will have a first taste of a motion of censure process, something that had become routine for his predecessor Elizabeth Bourne who faced 31 motions of censure during her term and once, in March 2023, there were only nine votes away from its passage amid the political storm caused by the highly unpopular pension reform.