The upper room voted against the “Recipes” component of the Government’s budget project for 2022, rejecting, in fact, the entire text at first reading.
Le Monde
it was expected. The Senate, chaired by the right, voted at first reading on Tuesday, November 23, the rejection of the “revenue” part of budget 2022, by 237 votes to and 52 for. This vote mechanically causes the rejection of the whole text.
Highly symbolic, this release powered by the room up, after the express examination of the text, as well as that of the 600 filed amendments, will, nevertheless, be without consequence on the final adoption of the bill of finance for 2022, scheduled for here at the end of the year. It will be presented in second reading on December 10 at the National Assembly, which will have the last word.
a “underside madness”
The right and left senators had announced their willingness to vote against, upon the adoption of the text at first reading by the members, on 16 November. Their main complaint: Emmanuel Macron would benefit from this budget to promote his action for the next April presidential election. Gérard Larcher (LR), President of the Senate, has thus qualified the envelope of “disturbing election campaign budget for the future”, judging that it was “not responsible” to vote “300 billion revenue for 455 billion of expenditure “, a deficit of 155 billion euros.
Map for Marseille, France 2030 investments or youth engagement contract: between the presentation of the draft budget and the end of its first reading examination at the National Assembly, 11.8 billion additional expenses have been added.
“We will not go further because you went too far”, launched at the Bruno Retailleau government, the President of the LR Group, for whom the rejection of the Senate, “a serious act, a rare act “, aims to alert the French on a” deeper madness “which” has nothing to do with the crisis “.
According to Mr. Larcher, the rejection of the text by the Senate is not a political shot, but “simply a way to draw the attention of our compatriots to the country’s financial and budgetary situation”. An argument shared by senators from the rest of the opposition to the government. The centrists, second component of the senatorial majority, had decided not to take part in the vote. The left, whose Senators of the Socialist Party (PS) spoke against, pronouncing on the budget, for the first time, since the beginning of the five-year.
This shrinkle of the senatorial majority is not a first. In 2016, the upper house, already held by the right, had rejected, from the outset, the last draft budget of the Quinquennat on the ground that it aimed to “ensure the election campaign of Mr. Holland or Mr. Valls” ” .
A series of budget debates, on several major themes, should be listed on the agenda by the Conference of Senate Presidents in the coming days.