Motion of no confidence

Uncommon card · No. 78094

In a deliberative assembly, a motion of no confidence is a motion declaring that a government or an officer, typically a government executive, is not fit to hold office. A vote on such a motion is a vote of no confidence; the corresponding inverses are a motion and vote of confidence. The no-confidence vote is a defining constitutional element of a parliamentary system (and derivatives such as the semi-presidential system), in which the mandate of the government or its officers relies on the continued support, or at least non-opposition, of the majority in the legislature. Systems differ in whether the motion may be directed against the prime minister, the government as a whole (whether majority, minority or coalition), individual cabinet ministers, the cabinet as a whole, or some combination of these. A censure motion is different from a no-confidence motion. In a parliamentary system, a vote of no confidence leads to the resignation of the prime minister and cabinet, or, depending on...

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