During a new confrontation with the government in the National Assembly, the oppositions especially criticized the absence of significant measures to deal with the hospital crisis. Elisabeth Borne must now have her finance bill adopted.
by Mariama Darame
The examination of the Social Security financing bill (PLFSS) for 2023 will remain a special case in the parliamentary history of the V e Republic. After five 49.3 and the failure of the sixth motion of censorship on this text, defended this time by the new Ecological and Social People’s Popular Union (Nuts), Friday, December 2, the budget of the “Security” is now considered to be definitively adopted by Parliament.
“It is a text for the most fragile, a text to protect those who suffer,” said Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, after having mentioned “massive means for our hospital, measures for cancer patients , for mothers alone, for people with disabilities, for dependent elderly people “, under the challenges of the deputies of the cloud.
In their desire to overthrow the government in the name of “trampling of the Parliament” and “the urgency of rebuilding the public hospital”, the four left -wing groups brought together only 87 votes – including 60 of rebellious France ( LFI) -, far from the absolute majority of 289 votes necessary for government censorship. In principle rejecting the votes of the 89 deputies of the National Rally (RN) in its text, the Nuts failed to mobilize all 148 signatories of this ninth censure motion debated since the start of the legislature.
It was after a new confrontation between oppositions and government, which has become almost a ritual in the National Assembly in this budgetary fall, that Elisabeth Borne concluded the session by stressing that “in three years, Michel Rocard [Socialist Prime Minister between 1988 and 1991], it is twenty-eight 49.3 and five motions of censorship only “, finding in this comparison the means of attributing to oppositions the responsibility of shortened or even non-existent debates. “We must put the hen on the egg: without 49.3, no censorship motion,” supported Moetai Brotherson, Communist deputy for Polynesia. “Do we want the debates to continue to take this turn? Do we want to regularly give the spectacle of the heartbreak and sterile debates within this assembly?”, I annoyed M me terminal.
absence of significant measures for the hospital
Before the speech of the tenant of Matignon, the various speakers of the opposition groups expressed their frustrations on the quality of parliamentary discussions, but also their deep disagreements on the content of the PLFSS, And even on pension reform. From 9:30 p.m., the elected “rebellious” of the Bouches-du-Rhône Manuel Bompard embarked on a rant against the government’s project, whose arrival in Parliament is announced for spring 2023. “Contrary to what You claim, you have no popular support or popular mandate to postpone the retirement age, “he said.
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