A short-term forecast. The government should use article 49.3 of the Constitution so that the first part of its budget project is approved in the Assembly without a vote, but not on Monday, said Elisabeth Borne on Sunday night.
The opposition groups “almost all confirmed to me that they would not vote in favor of the budget and that they would even vote against it. So we will certainly have to resort to 49.3 but, contrary to what Jean-Luc Mélenchon says, it will not be tomorrow” on Monday, the Prime Minister said on TF1.
What amendments?
In addition, Elisabeth Borne clarified that she would have “tomorrow, (…) an exchange with the presidents of the parliamentary groups” of the majority. “We will see which amendments will be included in the final text and which will not,” she added, refusing to say whether the amendment taxing superdividends, at the MoDem’s initiative and adopted against the government’s advice, would be among the approved amendments.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon had said on Sunday, on the sidelines of the demonstration in Paris “against the high cost of living and climate inaction” that the prime minister was going to “announce that 49.3 will apply on Monday or perhaps Tuesday but more likely on Monday – because they don’t want the session to resume and MPs to vote on the wealth tax amendments.
Source: BFM TV
