This is the third commitment to government responsibility on budgetary texts, after those on the parties of the state budget and the “security” budget last week.
Le Monde
The time was counted. Again, the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, used on Wednesday October 26 in the evening, for the third time in a week, to the constitutional weapon to pass the continuation of the 2023 social security budget.
This new 49.3 will allow the government to choose the version of the text on which it engages its responsibility, in addition to holding deadlines. The bill must indeed go to committee in the Senate next Wednesday.
As a result of its trigger, the oppositions have 24 hours to file any censorship motions. The left alliance of the new Ecological and Social People’s Popular Union (Nuts), shared, as well as the deputies of National Rally (RN) have not yet decided the question. If no motion is filed within this period, the text will be considered adopted.
“regrettable that the benches of the cloud have been emptied”
“I find it regrettable that the benches of the Nuts have emptied in anticipation while I quote the desired, wanted, demanded measures, sometimes for a long time by the left of this assembly,” said Elisabeth Borne, while the deputies On the left, but also those of the RN, had already left the hemicycle.
The parliamentary season is already well punctuated by the 49.3, which make it possible to pass the texts without vote, except for an accuracy of a censorship motion. Deprived of an absolute majority, the Prime Minister has already triggered two last week, on the “revenue” parties of state and “security” budgets, validated at first reading. The deputies are scalded, especially since most of the opposition amendments adopted during the meeting were not retained in the end.