Another 49.3 more that does not pass. After the President of the Government took out this constitutional weapon again to approve the second part of the budget this Wednesday night, the deputy La France insumise Rodrigo Arenas went “on strike”.
“I like the caretakers. I am officially on strike but I am not stopping my work. I want to say that Parliament’s working conditions are not respected,” explained this Parisian elected to BFMTV.
“I am not responsible for the failure of the Borne”
If the parliamentarian cannot legally strike, the position of deputy being not a job but a status, and in fact he will not lose any part of his assignment, it allows this former co-president of the FCPE to do a media stunt.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s movement has been denouncing for several weeks “the parliamentary coup” by the Prime Minister who can, in accordance with the Constitution, use 49.3 as many times as you like approve the budget texts. However, you can only use it once per parliamentary session on another bill.
“We are not responsible for the fact that Elisabeth Borne and Emmanuel Macron did not have an absolute majority in the National Assembly,” the parliamentarian also advances.
“A distinctive sign” during the QAG
In the absence of 289 deputies within the presidential majority, the executive considers that he had no choice but to use this legislative tool. However, the Prime Minister assured that some of the opposition’s amendments would be included in the final version of the budget.
But the amendments of 12,000 million euros for the renewal of the energy sieves carried by the left will not be part of it, the President of the Government has already indicated.
To highlight this Thursday afternoon in the hemicycle during the session of current questions to the government, Rodrigo Arenas promises to “carry a distinctive sign” to “imply” that he is unemployed.
“If they ask me to leave because it is prohibited, they will have to explain why,” says the rebel deputy.
However, the option remains highly unlikely. When François Ruffin discovered a football shirt under his polo shirt on the podium to denounce the situation of small football clubs in 2018, he received a financial penalty.
Source: BFM TV
