Moments after the final approval of the 2023 State budget project in the National Assembly, the LR and Nupes groups announced this Sunday that they were going to take over the Constitutional Council, in relation to the finance bill.
The right considers the finance bill “disingenuous” and the right of amendment “not respected”, Véronique Louwagie (LR) told the Assembly. The left considers for its part, in a press release, that the text “is manifestly contrary to various provisions and principles of constitutional and organic value.”
“The examination and approval procedure continued to ignore article 49 of the Constitution, the organic law relating to finance laws, the requirement of clarity and sincerity in parliamentary debate, and the right of amendment,” explains Nupes.
Ten times article 49-3
Parliament definitively approved the State Budget for 2023 this Saturday, after the rejection of a last motion of censure from the left in the Assembly, the end of an autumn dotted with ten appeals of the constitutional weapon of 49.3.
In a low-key chamber, the Nupes coalition crushed a “bad budget that responds neither to the social emergency nor to the ecological emergency,” and above all a cycle “that will have damaged democracy” due to the repeated use of 49.3. “We ask you to leave,” David Guiraud (LFI) asked Elisabeth Borne. But her motion received only 101 votes, far from an absolute majority (288 votes).
“The elections are still close. It was the first time that we examined the budget, with this configuration in our National Assembly. Our method is being built. It is making progress,” replied the Prime Minister.
In a stormy environment, he also addressed the “lessons of democracy” of LFI, at a time when several executives of the left movement strongly question the composition of the new leadership.
The tension crystallized in the amendments voted by the Assembly, but left aside by the government in the version of the budget presented to 49.3. This is the case of a measure proposed by the majority, by the MoDem, to increase the taxation of the “super dividends” of the shareholders of large companies, and which had received broad support from the opposition.
The government favors ongoing work on “value sharing” within the company, to promote profit sharing or the “employee dividend.” The executive, for his part, integrated an amendment at the last minute that establishes an economic participation of employees when they use their personal training account (CPF), causing a stir even in the majority.
In two months, the government will have triggered article 49, paragraph 3 of the Constitution ten times, to approve the State and Social Security budgets without a vote.
Source: BFM TV
