The Senate had rejected, earlier during the day, the budget by denouncing a “day of dupes” and the lack of listening to the government. It is the tenth and last time that the 49.3 has been used by the executive to pass the budgetary texts.
MO12345LEMONDE with AFP
Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne engaged, Thursday, December 15, the responsibility of the government before the National Assembly by using article 49.3 of the Constitution to adopt definitively and without vote The finance bill for 2023 , after the rejection of Text by the Senate with a right right earlier during the day.
This is the tenth and last time that the 49.3 has been used by the executive to pass the obstacle from its majority relating to the National Assembly and its minority to the Senate to the budgetary texts. Mathilde Panot, File head of the deputies of La France Insoumise, a Announced the filing of a censorship motion in the name of the Nutpe coalition (new ecological and social popular union), which notably brings together its group, environmentalists, socialists and the communists. The motion should be debated in the coming days.
In the Senate, Thursday morning, the upper room adopted by 260 votes against 54 a prior motion, refusing to carry out a new reading of the text and thus putting “a term to this day of dupes”, in the words of the president of the PS group, Patrick Kanner. Most groups have denounced the use of 49.3, deploring that almost all the amendments, especially from the right, were “swept” by the government.
“Yes, we made the choice of Take our responsibilities with the use of 49.3 “
The Minister of Public Accounts, Gabriel Attal, defended it, claiming to have “established a real dialogue” during the debate on the budget, while justifying the use of the constitutional weapon. “Yes, we have made the choice to take our responsibilities with the use of 49.3 since we cannot imagine the sixth world power face 2023 empty pockets without budget,” he said.
The CAP fixed by the government is to contain the public deficit to 5 % of the gross domestic product (GDP), despite measures such as the “price shield” to limit the increases in regulated gas and the ‘Electricity, an increase in the remuneration of teachers or the creation of more than 10,000 officials of civil servants, including 3,000 police and gendarmes.