Le Sénat a voulu “marquer le coup” dans la niit de mercredi à jeudi en rejetant la trajectoire pluriannuelle du gouvernement dans son project de budget de la Sécurité sociale, un vote essentiellement symbolique en raison du recours au 49.3 par l’exécutif à l’ National Assembly.
The upper house, dominated by the right-wing opposition allied with the centrists, had warned for several days that it wanted to send a “message” to the government regarding the “Secu” deficit, which was going to increase according to its forecasts.
In its Social Security financing bill (PLFSS), the Government estimates this deficit at 8.8 billion euros in 2023, then at 11.2 billion in 2024, corrected to 10.7 billion after integrating the financial impact of the modifications maintained after the examination of the text in the National Assembly. Assembly.
A “resignation from reducing debt”
In the longer term, this deficit could reach 17.5 billion in 2027, according to government projections.
“We must celebrate the occasion, we cannot accept this,” added the senator who is part of the centrist group before proposing the deletion of article 16 of the PLFSS, dedicated to the budget trajectory.
The left, a minority in the Senate, was also in favor of this very symbolic rejection, since the Government will be able to preserve its version of the text at the end of the parliamentary examination thanks to article 49.3 of the Constitution, which allows it to adopt its budget without a vote in the assembly.
“No ecological change”
“We need a long-term vision. This forecast does not initiate any ecological change or any massive investment for our health,” lamented environmentalist Anne Souyris.
“It would have taken me a lot to convince them,” lamented the Minister of Public Accounts, Thomas Cazenave, after examining the part relating to PLFSS income. “At the end of these debates, we have degraded the Social Security situation” to “more than 1.2 billion” euros.
The center and right senatorial majority also plans to reject the national health insurance (Ondam) spending target for 2024, set by the Government at 254.9 billion euros.
On Wednesday he also opposed the reform of the calculation of the “safeguard clause”, a financial contribution that pharmaceutical companies pay to health insurance when their drug turnover increases very quickly.
Source: BFM TV
