The National Assembly unanimously adopted on Monday the special bill aimed at allowing the executive to collect taxes and borrow on the markets to ensure the continuity of the State and Social Security.
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Ten days after the government censorship ofMichel Barnierthe deputies were back on the benches of the hemicycle on Monday. In the absence of a budget for 2025, they examined this Monday the special bill aimed at “ensuring the continuity of national life and the regular functioning of public services”. A technical text without political significance, explained the resigning Minister of the Economy, Antoine Armand.
This text, which was adopted unanimously, has two objectives: “to continue to raise taxes” and “to allow the State to contribute to issuing debt in order to ensure the continuity of public services”. If it only aims to avoid budgetary discontinuity, the text is not the renewal of last year’s budget, explained the Minister ofEconomy.
Adopted by the 481 deputies present in the hemicycle, the bill included three technical articles. This rare concord was accompanied by controversy because most opposition parties deplored that the President of the Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet declared inadmissible the amendments to index the income tax scale to inflation. A decision that LFI deputies see as an abuse of power on the part of Yaël Braun-Pivet. Same story on the RN side.
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No “ shutdown »
It is now the Senate’s turn to examine the text. The elected representatives of the upper house will examine it this Wednesday. Its final adoption will thus allow the State to operate with this special law, the main article of which allows the executive to raise taxes on the basis of those voted for last year for 2024. The executive will then be able to initiate expenditure by decree, but will have to be satisfied with “ minimum credits » that he « considers it essential to continue the execution of public services “. The deputies also adopted an amendment to include in the text the levies on state revenue for the benefit of communities.
“ To the great despair of the crows of doom of the macronie and the macronized right. There will therefore be no “shutdown” » with censorship, launched Jean-Philippe Tanguy (RN). However, the government will not be able to “ not increase “, beyond ” the bare minimum “, the budgets of certain ministries which had to be revalued, argued Laurent Saint-Martin, taking the example “ of the Armies, Justice (and) the Interior “.
At the same time, the task of the new head of government François Bayrou is to pass real budgetary texts for 2025, avoiding censorship. Eric Coquerel, LFI president of the Finance Committee, promised to oppose “ any austerity budget “.