The National Assembly examines from 4:00 p.m. this Monday, February 3, the text on the 2025 budget on Monday, February 3, which a joint joint commission gave birth on Friday. In the absence of a majority, Prime Minister François Bayrou has announced that he would use article 49 paragraph 3 for the constitution for the first time, exposing a censorship of the left. The position of the national rally and the PS, without whom this motion cannot pass, is not yet known. The looks are more particularly on the socialists, with whom the government has been negotiating for several weeks.
Info to remember
⇒ Examination of the 2025 budget will start at 4:00 p.m. in the National Assembly
⇒ The government should engage its responsibility on the text
⇒ The PS “does not exclude” a censorship alongside the rest of the left, the RN either
08:40
Censor or not? At the RN, a decision “during the day”
Will the national rally vote the Bayrou government’s censorship? “A decision will be made during the day,” said BFMTV the deputy Yoann Gillet, according to which “at the moment T, the text which was approved in the joint joint committee is harmful”. The elected official mentions in particular “more taxes for companies”, but also the absence of “real savings”.
07:55
The Minister of Public Accounts warns against a new censorship
Invited on RTL this Monday morning, Amélie de Montchalin said that a new censorship would be “dramatic”. “The question that François Bayrou will ask with this 49.3 is ‘Are you for or against France is advancing?’,” Said the Minister of Public Accounts. “This compromise budget must exist if not a million French people will enter the income tax, 18 million will see their invoice increase, in particular farmers,” she also argued.
07:40
The Socialist Party does not exclude censorship
Insoumise France has announced a motion of censorship, which should vote on communist and environmentalists on Wednesday. The position of the national rally and the PS, without the voices of which this motion cannot pass, is not yet known. In an interview with Ouest-France On Sunday, the president of the PS group Boris Vallaud said that the question was “not yet decided”. If the PS has “torn off concessions”, they “remain largely insufficient to make this budget a good budget,” he said. “But we also know that this country needs a budget and we hear the concerns, fears of companies, communities or associations,” he said.
Former Prime Minister Lionel Jospin intervened in this debate on Saturday, calling the socialists and the left in general “not to vote censorship”, which would leave the country without government and without budget. Argument strongly disputed by the rebellious leaders on Sunday: LFI coordinator Manuel Bompard said he was “radical disagreement” with Lionel Jospin, in the name of loyalty to the promises made to voters.
On the side of the RN, the deputy Jean-Philippe Tanguy estimated on Sunday on France 3 that the proposed budget was “worse than the absence of budget”, and that he himself wanted censorship. But it will be up to Marine Le Pen, president of the group, and to Jordan Bardella, president of the party, to decide, he stressed.
07:30
The government will engage its responsibility on the vote of the 2025 budget
The deputies will examine, this Monday, February 3, the text on the 2025 budget on Monday, February 3, drawn up on Friday in joint joint committee. The opposition deputies who voted against the text during this commission, Prime Minister François Bayrou announced, in an interview with La Tribune on Sundaythat he would engage the responsibility of his government by resorting to article 49.3 of the Constitution, in the absence of a majority in the Assembly.
The Prime Minister should continue quickly, perhaps on Monday evening, a second 49.3, on the first part of the social security budget, which arrives in new reading in the Assembly. Three 49.3 In total will have to be triggered on this text before its transmission to the Senate, one for each party, opening the door to a motion of censorship on the left at the uncertain outcome. Examination of the text in the assembly will start at 4:00 p.m.