The Prime Minister started the constitutional procedure, while the text was discussed in the last reading by the deputies. The day before, the senators had rejected the text, refusing to make a new reading.
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It is without surprise effect that Elisabeth Borne presented herself in the hemicycle, Wednesday, November 30, afternoon. While the Senate rejected Tuesday the draft social security budget for 2023, the Prime Minister again started article 49.3 of the Constitution in the National Assembly, in order to lead to a final adoption of the text.
It is the seventh time since October that the government has resorted to this constitutional weapon on a budgetary text. Article 49.3 allows the executive to have a law directly adopted without a vote. Its use is not limited within the framework of finance bills (PLF) and social security financing (PLFSS).
rejection preliminary in the Senate Tuesday
Tuesday, the Senate, with a majority of the right, approved by 264 against 65 a prior motion refusing to make a new reading of the draft budget “in order to mark our differences on the form and on the substance,” said The centrist rapporteur Elisabeth Doineau.
“Systematic employment by the government of the procedure defined in article 49 paragraph 3 of the Constitution will not allow the integration, in final reading, new proposals from the Senate”, deplored elected officials. The latter were annoyed that the government has “swept” their emblematic amendments “, which was in particular that on the postponement of the retirement age at 64, which they had adopted at first reading.
The Prime Minister had sparked the 49.3 procedure for the sixth time Friday, November 25 in the National Assembly, in order to have the PLFSS “spending” component adopted. For the sixth time again, the “rebellious” deputies had deposited a motion of censorship against the government, which was also once rejected on Monday.