put in the minority as soon as discussions on the social security financing bill (PLFSS), the executive decided, on Thursday, October 20, to put an end to the debates, as he did Wednesday by having the first part of the 2023 budget adopted without vote.
Le Monde
A 49.3 triggered on the state budget, a second for that of the security: the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, announced, Thursday, October 20, in the National Assembly that she engaged the responsibility of her government On the social security financing bill (PLFSS) through article 49.3 of the Constitution, less than twenty-four hours after having resorted to the same institutional weapon to have the first part of the project of the Budget law 2023.
Article 49.3 makes it possible to adopt a legislative text in the National Assembly without going through a vote, provided that a censure motion is not voted in the days that follow.
Exchanges stretched upon opening the debates
Exchanges on the PLFSS had started very badly for the executive: the first part of the PLFSS, supposed to approve the accounts of the years 2021 and 2022, was rejected immediately by 98 votes against 72. “The recipes and the Expenses were insufficient “and” we have no reason to give you discharge today “, had justified the communist Pierre Dharréville.
The Minister Delegate Public Accounts, Gabriel Attal, had immediately raised himself against a “Pavlovian opposition” to budget projects and “postures”. “You do not have to get upset,” replied the head of the deputies of National Rally (RN), Marine Le Pen, accusing the executive of “overlaying the indignation perhaps to give reasons [at 49.3]”.
Article 3, relating to financial year 2022, has been significantly rewritten by the adoption of an amendment by deputy PCF Pierre Dharréville, who plans to “reallocate health insurance the expenses incurred during the pandemic” , rather than weighing them “on social debt”. “We send an invoice of 18 billion euros to future generations”, indignant Gabriel Attal. The majority opposed the vote on the article. But it was adopted with the votes of the new Ecological and Social People’s Popular Union (Nuts) and part of the RN (111 for, 87 against).
Examination of censorship motions Monday
Regarding the motions of censorship filed against the government by the Nuts and the RN after the use of article 49.3 to pass the 2023 budget without vote, they will be debated Monday afternoon by the National Assembly, A- We learned Thursday from parliamentary sources. The motions will be examined from 4 pm and “will be the subject of a joint discussion”, decided the conference of the presidents of the assembly on Thursday. These motions have almost no chance of being adopted.
No censorship motion following the use of 49.3 has been adopted since the birth of the V e Republic in 1958.