This is the seventh time that the Prime Minister has been carrying out responsibility for her government. Oppositions denounce the absence of a debate while the health system, weakened by two years of pandemic, is in the midst of a crisis.
by Mariama Darame and Jérémie Lamothe
Is this the ultimate sign of the trivialization of the 49.3 desired by the executive? It is in the absence of the Minister of Health, François Braun, traveling to Mayotte, and his counterpart to the solidarity, Jean-Christophe Combe, that the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, engaged, Wednesday, November 30, of his government during the final reading of the Social Security financing bill (PLFSS) in the National Assembly.
This is the seventh time in two months, and the fifth time on the PLFSS, that the tenant of Matignon uses this article of the Constitution, which makes it possible to have a text without a vote, unlimitedly on the Budget texts. A last 49.3 to have the “Social Security” budget therefore, before three other expected on the finance bill in December.
“At the end of the examination of the text, and a few days before the term of the constitutional period [scheduled for Saturday December 3], I regret again, as I have already done, that the positions have remained frozen . And that despite the advances, each opposition group has reaffirmed its desire to oppose the bill, whatever it contains, whatever it is, “argued Elisabeth Borne from the tribune of the hemicycle, Under the hoots of oppositions.
“You have chosen ease”
During this final reading of the PLFSS, the benches of the left like those of the right and the extreme right denounced a “process which completely evacuated the debate”, after the assembly could only examine Some text amendments in second reading. “The 49.3 is a revolver that targets the nation and the assembly. You chose ease”, attacked, from the start of the session, the “rebellious” deputy of Seine-Saint-Denis Raquel Garrido, defending a motion rejection prior to the text, which has not succeeded.
Within the presidential coalition, the 49.3 did not start supporting a social security budget with 600 billion euros deemed “ambitious and responsible”. “I am convinced that our fellow citizens will retain from the past few weeks the decisive measures that we have worn, and not the adventures of a sad political spectacle,” said the general rapporteur of the social security budget, Stéphanie Rist (Renaissance , Loiret).
“Thank you for this constructive debate, this abundance, this shades, this degraded of 49.3, which gives so many flavors to our debates. (…) We will rarely have so little debated in health, social protection since existence Social security financing laws, “said the communist deputy of Bouches-du-Rhône Pierre Dharréville in return. On a less thunderous tone, the Senate, which rejected the text, also denounced the day before the repeated use of 49.3. “You have swept all our work, you do not want compromise and use – legally – from 49.3, but your use is bad, brutal and we reject it,” said the socialist senator of Paris Bernard Jomier, under the acclamations of his colleagues.
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