After the 49.3 on the budget, Elisabeth Borne faced with the motions of censure of the Nupes and the RN

Published on: 24/10/2022 – 10:21 The motions of censure of the Nupes and the National Rally are put to the vote, Monday afternoon, after the use of 49.3 by Élisabeth Borne to pass the revenue part of the project finance law. These should give rise to lively debates in the National Assembly, but a priori have no chance of being adopted. Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne faces, Monday, October 24, in the National Assembly, the motions of censure of the Nupes and the National Rally (RN) on the 2023 budget, which promise electric debates in the hemicycle although they have almost no chance of being adopted. Discussed from 4 p.m., these motions respond to the constitutional weapon of 49.3, drawn on October 19 by the head of government to pass the revenue part of the bill without a vote. of Finance, first part of the 2023 State budget. On behalf of the 151 elected members of the left-wing coalition, the president of the environmental group Cyrielle Chatelain will present the motion of censure of the Nupes to denounce the government’s “contempt” for Parliament and criticize a budget “irresponsible in climate terms. “And this motion of censure is first of all to have a vote. Otherwise, there would be no vote on the budget, which is supposed to identify the priorities of the country”, she underlines with from AFP.>> To read: What you need to know about the use of 49.3 by the government Then will come the turn of Marine Le Pen for the RN. The motion of the 89 far-right deputies, co-signed by the non-registered Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, accuses the government of a “denial of democracy”, because it “erased with a stroke of the pen about fifty amendments, yet voted “at the National Assembly, before the shutdown of 49.3. The joint discussion should last some two and a half hours, not counting the response from Elisabeth Borne. Then the deputies will vote in the neighboring rooms of the hemicycle. Only the votes for the motions are taken into account. A first 49.3, while waiting for many others They have a priori no chance of obtaining the absolute majority of 289 votes, necessary to bring down the government. Because neither the Nupes nor the RN intend to support the rival motion, and the right has already warned that it would not vote for them so as not to “add disorder to disorder”. “If one day we have to vote for a motion of censure , it is the one that we will have chosen to deposit. And we do not refrain from doing it”, commented Sunday on Radio J Olivier Marleix, the leader of the LR deputies. Under the Fifth Republic, only one motion of censorship was adopted in 1962, bringing down the government of Georges Pompidou.>> To see: Use of 49.3: the first in a long series for the government In the absence of an absolute majority for the Macronists in the Assembly, this 49.3 is probably the first of a long series during this budget fall. Elisabeth Borne has already triggered a second one on Thursday on the Social Security budget, with another Nupes motion at stake, which could be examined Monday evening or Tuesday. The presidential camp is trying to trivialize the use of this article 49 paragraph 3 of the Constitution, which could be brandished a dozen times to pass the state budget and that of Social Security by Christmas. “What those who table motions of censure are proposing is to add crisis to crisis, by ensuring that France does not have a budget and by overthrowing the government”, underlined Sunday on France Inter the Minister of Public Accounts Gabriel Attal. The amendment on superdividends not accepted A rejection of the motions of censure would allow the adoption of the first part of the finance bill (PLF) for 2023 and the passage to the examination of the second , devoted to expenditure, from Thursday. In the version of the budget submitted to 49.3, the executive had every opportunity to retain the amendments of its choice. He kept a hundred, but none of the RN and LFI and not the most sensitive. It is the government which “lacks a sense of compromise and did not understand the result of the legislative elections”, judged Sunday evening Marine Le Pen on TF1. According to her, “the government uses 49.3 as a tool to circumvent the will of the French”. In the name of fiscal stability, the government rejected a proposal by the MoDem, in the majority, to increase the taxation of “super dividends” from large companies. Fighted by the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire, the measure had obtained the support of the left, the RN, but also of around twenty Renaissance elected officials. In this 2023 budget, the government claims a balance between the control of public finances and the “protection” of the French, thanks to a “tariff shield” of 45 billion euros to limit the increase in regulated electricity and gas prices to 15%. With AFP