The head of the modern deputies, Marc Fesneau, considered on Tuesday, October 28, that Parliament was not “ripe” to function without resorting to article 49.3, attacking the “oukazes” of the PS who would like “a compromise” on the budget and “to be able to vote against in the end.”
“We can clearly see that we are not used to this exercise of dialogue, of commitment, of how to express it, of carrying our identity without going astray and at the same time accepting the identity of others,” judged Marc Fesneau on TF1.
“React agreements and disagreements”
By deciding not to resort to article 49.3 of the Constitution, that is, the possibility of approving the budget without a vote with the government that chooses the amendments it retains, the Prime Minister took “a risk because it required collective maturity.”
The 49.3 had the advantage “of recording agreements and disagreements and then everyone said ‘I accept or I don’t accept'” when voting on a motion of censure, he stressed.
Expressing his “tiredness” of “listening sometimes every hour” to the “oukases” of the PS, he estimated that the socialists could not “ask for a compromise” and say “at the end of the day, I will not vote for this budget.”
The Zucman tax will not “heal all the country’s wounds”
“There comes a time when we look for a compromise, we have to take what we have acquired, say it,” he told the socialists, believing that they had obtained satisfaction about “the suspension of pensions” and “the differential contribution on high incomes.”
As for the Zucman tax on great wealth, it will be debated “probably on Friday” due to the length of the debates, he warned.
If he “has no difficulty” in debating “great fortunes,” he reiterated “that it is not the Zucman tax that will heal all the country’s wounds.” “We cannot ignore the issue of reducing spending,” he insisted.
Source: BFM TV
