After a last passage from the finance bill to the Senate, a tenth appeal to 49.3 should be activated by Elisabeth Borne during the week to close the examination of the text.
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This is neither a surprise nor a novelty. The National Assembly rejected, Tuesday, December 13, in the evening, a censorship motion filed by the deputies of rebellious France (LFI) against the government, which is worth adoption in new reading of the 2023 budget draft.
This new motion responded to the constitutional weapon of 49.3, triggered for the ninth time by the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, during this budgetary fall, for lack of absolute majority at the Bourbon Palace. It only collected 102 supports, far from the absolute majority of 289 votes necessary to bring down the government.
After a last transition from the budget to the Senate, a tenth 49.3 should be activated in the Assembly during the week, to overcome the examination of this finance bill.
Reference to Raymond Queneau and the “Truman Show”
In the hemicycle, Elisabeth Borne criticized LFI deputies their “systematic” opposition and their “excess”. The Prime Minister quoted the writer Raymond Queneau, “who wrote 99 times the same story, in 99 different ways, in his” “style exercises”, as well as the film The Truman Show, because “you are encountering the walls Painted from your imaginary world, “she said to LFI deputies. M terminal defended among other measures “the premium of 100 euros to help modest workers in the face of the rise in fuel prices”.
Previously, the LFI Charlotte Leduc had launched hostilities against the executive, castigating the “refusal to tax superprofits” and the “contempt for democratic institutions” with this repeated recourse in 49.3.
“You do not stop trampling on the oppositions”, accused the deputy of the Moselle, by mentioning the last minute amendment introduced by the government via 49.3 to make employees “pay” part of their personal account of training “.
“Neither the assembly, nor the Senate, nor even the finance commissions could debate this proposal. It creaks down to your ranks,” she said.
A measure that causes swirls
Because this measure caused a stir during the Renaissance group meeting on Tuesday morning, and sparked the ire of the unions. The socialist Inaki Echaniz denounced an “unworthy method method”, and the ecologist Benjamin Lucas an “amendment from nowhere”. On the right, the deputy Les Républicains (LR) Marie-Christine Dalloz criticized the “downgrading of France”, member of the “quinté of the most indebted countries of the European Union”.
“The start of the school year promises to be decisive and difficult, we are waiting for you at the turn,” launched the deputy LR, while the government intends to present its pension reform on January 10, 2023.
In the presidential camp, Mathieu Lefèvre (Renaissance) attacked “the extreme left” for which “censorship begins to rhyme with wear. (…) You yourself no longer believe”. His colleague from Modem Perrine Goulet again pleaded to increase the taxation of capital income, while the government has dismissed a centrist proposal to impose “superdividends” in large companies.