examined at first reading, the text was postponed on Tuesday by 309 votes to 243, due to a coalition of oppositions. The government intends to defend it again in the Senate.
Le Monde
The National Assembly rejected, Tuesday, October 25, the 2023-2027 budget programming bill, a piloting text which plans to bring the public deficit under the 3 % GDP in 2027. Examined at first reading, The text was postponed by 309 votes against 243, due to a coalition of oppositions.
This reverse was expected, in the absence of an absolute majority for macronists in the Assembly. “Oppositions have invented the vote of self -censorship, they deprive themselves of essential instruments to assess public action,” denounced the Minister of Public Accounts, Gabriel Attal. “The text will continue to walk in the Senate,” he said before the deputies.
In the hemicycle, the “rebellious” Charlotte Leduc criticized an “austerity ideology” and her related socialist colleague Christian Baptiste “budgetary rigor” to “reassure the markets”.
On the right, Véronique Louwagie (Les Républicains) regretted a “umpteenth missed opportunity” to reduce expenses. In terms of national rally, Philippe Lottiaux sees in this text a “dummy programming” for “complaise to the European Union”. He had already been rejected in committee, then was unraveled in session, with the abolition of a series of articles, to the chagrin of the government. 2> article 49.3 already triggered twice
To try to convince the Assembly, Gabriel Attal had affirmed that the rejection of the text could cause “a delay, a period or even an amputation of the European funds” paid in the recovery plan.
Questioned, the European Commission has not specifically confirmed such a risk, but recalls the attachment of the European Council to “the sustainability of the debt rate of France”. A regular budget, deputy Charles de Courson (Liot group), for his part, reacted:
“We will no longer have European aids? It does not hold. Rejection this afternoon puts the government in difficulty in its relations with Brussels, that’s true. But [the government can] always say : with 49.3 We will vote a budget and a social security financing law in accordance with what we had considered do each year. “
The government has already triggered article 49.3 twice to pass the revenue components of the state budget and social security without vote.
Except on these budgetary bills, he can only use it on another text by session. The government did not wish to grill this cartridge on the programming law. This text also provides for a stability in the staff of the public service during the five -year term.