Unsurprisingly, the National Assembly rejected this Monday, February 10, a new censorship motion on Monday, February 10, filed by LFI against the appeal of François Bayrou in article 49 paragraph 3 of the Constitution to have the “Revenue” part of the budget adopted without vote Social Security for 2025. The motion only collected 115 votes out of 289 necessary, in the absence of the support of the RN and the PS group.
Faced with a highly sparse hemicycle, François Bayrou defended the need for a budget “adopted as soon as possible”. The Vice-President of the Nadège Abomangoli assembly called to censor a budget which “multiplies trompe-l’oeil” and a government which “speaks and acts as the national rally”.
Heckled by the rebellious, the socialist Jérôme Guedj assumed non-censorship and called to “a Grenelle du Financing” of the security, putting in particular on the table the financing by “the successions”, “the heritage” or even a “participation retirees “.
In the process, the Prime Minister hired another 49.3, on the last part of the text, concerning the “expenses” for 2025. The rebellious people responding by the announcement of a new censorship motion, which should probably be examined on Wednesday.
A security deficit around 23 billion euros in 2025
Once adopted in the Assembly, the text will go to the Senate, where the government hopes for validation without modification by the upper chamber, a priori on February 17 and 18, which would be worth final adoption in Parliament and would close the budget sequence.
The bill, which had cost its post at Michel Barnier, has since been negotiated, in particular between the executive and the PS. He planned to contain the increase in health expenses at + 2.6 %, to reach 264.2 billion euros. The government has promised to revise this objective at + 3.3 %. An extension of more than a billion to restore air to hospitals. The executive has also given up an increase in moderating tickets (remains with the patient after reimbursement of health insurance), in particular on medical consultations, at a cost encrypted at 400 million euros. Censorship was also due to the deindexation of pensions on inflation, widely fought in the hemicycle.
After a first visit to the Senate, the text provided for a new “day of solidarity” in favor of the great age, seven additional hours worked without remuneration. But the government has renounced it. The initial project provided for a deficit of 16 billion euros, but the delay taken since censorship, certain un compeated concessions and the degradation of macroeconomic forecasts, lead the government to provide a deficit around 23 billion euros in 2025 , a “considerable and progression deficit”, alerted François Bayrou evoking an “immense task for the future”.