Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who no longer has a majority, had already failed twice in September to impose early elections.
His three attempts ended in so many failures. Boris Johnson failed Monday, October 28 to obtain in the House of Commons two-thirds of the votes needed to call early elections on December 12 in the United Kingdom. Only 299 deputies voted in favor of Boris Johnson's plan, far from the 434 votes needed to adopt it. Seventy deputies voted against, the rest abstained.
"We will not allow this paralysis to continue. This room can not hold our country hostage any longer. ", commented Boris Johnson immediately, before announcing the imminent filing of a bill for early elections on December 12. This separate parliamentary route will require only a simple majority, not a two-thirds qualified majority, which was needed on Monday.
Prime Minister without a majority
The Conservative Prime Minister, who no longer has a majority, had already failed twice in September in his attempt to call a vote. However, he had the support of the libdemocrats (LibDem), eager to garner in the polls the benefits that the polls lend to their pro-European positioning assumed. The Scottish National Party (SNP) said he was in favor of holding early elections, but not in terms suggested by Boris Johnson.
Labor, the main opposition party, had, for its part, repeated that it would vote for general elections only once the risk of an exit without agreement dismissed.
Brexit report
Since his return from Brussels agreement in his pocket, about ten days ago, Boris Johnson has managed to obtain unprecedented advances. He was also forced to request a postponement, he who said he would prefer "To be dead in a ditch" than to formulate such a request.
British MPs approved Boris Johnson's Brexit agreement in principle, but they rejected the forced timetable that he wanted to impose on them, reducing his hopes of fulfilling his promise of Brexit on October 31st.
The exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union, the fruit of a referendum held in June 2016, was initially scheduled for March 29.
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