RN deputies file an appeal before the Constitutional Council

The National Rally deputies filed an appeal before the Constitutional Council, Thursday, November 16, to request the “total censorship” of the public finance programming bill 2023-2027, adopted Wednesday evening after recourse to article 49.3.

The far-right group contests the fact that the announcement of 49.3 was entrusted to the Minister of Relations with Parliament, Franck Riester, on Monday at the National Assembly, during Elisabeth Borne’s trip to Ireland. The minister had read in the chamber a letter from the head of government holding his government responsible, in order to pass the text without a vote.

The Sages have one month to decide

The National Rally believes that Franck Riester’s intervention would have required the publication of a “decree granting interim employment” At “profit” of the minister. Marine Le Pen’s group also protests against the successive implementation of the 49.3 procedure on this text to “the opportunity for an extraordinary session” end of September, then “during the ordinary session of Parliament”. The Sages have one month to decide.

The government can only use the constitutional tool of 49.3 once per parliamentary session, apart from its unlimited use authorized on the State and Social Security budgets. Supported by legal opinions, the presidential camp believes that the 49.3 triggered on Monday does not deprive it of its only cartridge during the current session. Because it would be a continuation of the first triggering of this constitutional tool at the end of September, on this same programming law, during an extraordinary session.