The Government has engaged its responsibility for the third time to pass the entire bill to finance the “Social Security”, avoiding debates on the most controversial subjects, including in the presidential majority.
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Week after week, the examination of budgetary texts in the National Assembly poses a major challenge to deputies as in the executive: that of bringing parliamentary debates to life despite the ax of 49.3.
Wednesday, October 26, discussions on the Social Security financing bill (PLFSS) were no exception. Shortly before midnight, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne burst into the gallery to announce, for the third time in a week, the commitment of her responsibility, this time on the whole PLFSS for 2023.
This new recourse to article 49.3 of the Constitution, which allows the government to adopt a text without a vote of the Parliament, comes after two fruitful attempts for the executive, which was able to adopt the “Recipes components “From his finance bill – after eight days of debate – and that of the budget of the” security ” – from the first day of discussion – at first reading, after the failure of three censorship motions on Monday.
It is before the sparse ranks of his majority and a handful of elected officials from the Les Républicains (LR) party that the Matignon tenant defended “a text of social progress” citing “the increase in EHPAD controls [ Accommodation establishment for dependent elderly people] “,” strengthening the permanence of care “or” 100 % care for hair prostheses for women with cancer “.
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Inaudible satisfaction for oppositions. The elected officials of the new Ecological and Social People’s Popular Union (Nuts) had already left the hemicycle for half an hour Protestant against “a masquerade” before being followed by the deputies of the National Rally (RN). “It is clear that we will stop participating in this cynical operation and this anti-parliamentary disorder that you organize,” was outraged (La France Insoumise, LFI) of Seine-Saint-Denis, Alexis Corbière, in reference To the words used by Emmanuel Macron in his interview on Wednesday evening, in which he considers that the vote of the motion of censorship of the cloud by the RN, Monday, is “disorder” and “cynicism”.
“I find it regrettable that the benches of the Nuts have emptied in advance while I quote the desired, wanted measures, sometimes claimed for a long time by the left of this assembly,” criticized M me Terminal, without evoking the absence of elected officials from the far right.
Of the 3,000 amendments deposited on this budget of the “security”, almost 1,100 remained to be examined on Wednesday evening. Oppositions have continued to demand that the text can be debated until its end, beyond Wednesday. “At the rate where the work goes, we would therefore still need more than 80 hours of debate to complete the examination of the text,” justified Elisabeth Borne, who recalled that no opposition group had agreed to vote the text.
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