He saves his post at the head of the government. Prime Minister François Bayrou should escape immediate censorship. The tenant of Matignon used, this Monday, February 3, to his first two articles 49.3 on Monday, February 3: one on the text resulting from the joint joint commission on the state budget (PLF), the other on part of the Social Security Budget (PLFSS). A political operation that should not cost him his place in Matignon. The reason? The Socialist Party, gathered in the national office earlier during the day, finally chose to vote for the non-censure of the government.
“The finance bill for 2025 remains a right budget,” the PS group said in a press release. In this text, the socialists invoke the “spirit of responsibility” and “the interest of the country” so as not to censor the government when France expects to have a budget “. The group’s deputies will however deposit a spontaneous censure motion, via article 49.2, in response to the words of François Bayrou on the “feeling of submersion” migratory. But, according to the words of several participants in the national office, it has “no chance” to collect the votes of the RN and to bring down the government.
So that’s François Bayrou saved… for the moment? Insoumise France, which immediately criticized the choice of the PS, its partner in the new Popular Front, has deposited a censorship motion after the use of the 49-3 on the state budget. But his chances of succeeding are impossible without the voting of the socialists, especially since the national rally has still not announced whether whether to vote it or not.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon denounces a “rallying” of the PS to the government
The president (LFI) of the finance committee in the National Assembly, Eric Coquerel, still wanted this again this Monday to believe in a possible adoption of censorship. “If the RN votes the motion of censorship, it is enough that there are 20-25 which [la] Vote “, he insisted. According to the press release from the PS group, the 66 deputies of the group should however follow the choice of their party, and therefore allow François Bayrou to continue his mission in Matignon.” The vote of Non-censorship by the PS consumes its rallying to the Bayrou government […] The NFP is reduced by a party, “said the founder of La France Insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, in a blog note.
Two months after the censorship of the government of Michel Barnier on the social security budget, the Prime Minister this Monday justified the use of 49.3 on this same bill as “an obligation for us to have a text that allows actors to have a clear roadmap “. This is a “first step” in the restoration of accounts, for its part estimated the Minister of Labor and Health Catherine Vautrin, stressing that the security deficit will be “more than 22 billion euros” in 2025.
If its adoption now seems to be well left to be ratified, the PLFSS remains far from being unanimous among the different parliamentary groups. “The text that we are going to adopt does not solve any of the structural problems of our public accounts and our corporate accounts,” alerted the general rapporteur Thibault Bazin, elected Republicans (LR). A position shared by president of the Social Affairs Committee, the former Minister of Health Frédéric Valletoux (Horizons). “For 15 years, social security accounts have experienced such a level of deficit, with the exception of the year 2020, the year of the Pandemic peak,” he regretted.
François Bayrou could still resort twice this week at 49.3 on other sides of this project of budget of the security, then hoping for an adoption in accordance with the Senate around February 17-18. The budgetary episode, started in the fall, would finally be completed for the year 2025.