The parliamentarians criticize the government in particular for having used 49.3 on the whole text, without integrating the amendments voted previously by the National Assembly.
MO12345lemonde with AFP
New assault on the opposition against the 2023 budget. Two days after the final adoption of the finance bill, deputies of the Alliance of the Left New People’s Ecological and Social People’s Union (Nuts) on the one hand, Republicans (LR) on the other hand, separately filed, Monday, December 19, an appeal to the Constitutional Council against the text ratified after the use of ten times of 49.3.
Among many grievances, left and right deputies criticize the government for having activated the procedure provided for in article 49.3 of the Constitution, which allows the adoption of a text without a vote, except for an adoption of a motion of censure. Throughout the fall, Elisabeth Borne used it for each part of the budget and the final text, first and second readings.
increase in energy prices limited to 15 %
If no majority of deputies have emerged to censor the government, the LR parliamentarians and Nuts who seized the Constitutional Council believe that the Prime Minister could only use 49.3 on the whole text, and not part by part. Likewise, they criticize the government for having infringed parliamentarians’ right of amendment for having submitted to 49.3 a text without taking up changes, however voted by majority by deputies.
The budget had been considered definitively adopted on December 17 after the rejection of a censorship motion filed by the La France Insoumise group (LFI). Among its flagship measures, a pricing shield to contain at 15 % the increase in energy prices, wage increases for teachers and priority to the sovereign ministries.
The debate focused on the calls of the left and the National Rally (RN) to tax the “superprofits” of large companies such as the Total oil tanker or the CMA CGM shipowner. Nuts and extreme right have claimed a large tax. The executive opposed them a sealed agreement at European level with in particular a cap in income from electricity producers, likely to bring in the funds of 11 billion euros.