The ordinary parliamentary session in France opens this Monday, October 2. And it is the examination of the budget which will punctuate the debates this fall. A new test for the government and its relative majority, with the prospect of numerous 49.3s to be drawn.
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The question is not whether Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne will use article 49.3 on the budget, but when? A minister pulls no punches and says: “ For me, the sooner you do it, the better. “, because letting the debates run is ” very demobilizing for the majority deputies ” And ” everyone knows the outcome “.
A way of taking note of the fact that there is no other possibility of giving France a budget than triggering the famous article of the Constitution, because finding the votes to pass it is an impossible challenge. The budget is the text on which the opposition traditionally opposes and does not do the majority a favor, especially when it is relative.
Everything is therefore a question of timing in the face of an opposition which wants to be able to debate and criticizes an “abusive use” of 49.3. Arguments rejected by Élisabeth Borne during the debate on first motion of censure filed by Nupesafter the first 49.3 of the parliamentary season on the public finance programming law, examined last week in extraordinary session. A rehearsal before the ordinary session and the examination of the 2024 budget.
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