The budget review, which begins in the National Assembly on Wednesday, October 12, promises to be stormy. Especially since the threat of recourse to Article 49.3 of the Constitution hovers. The Council of Ministers thus authorized the government to activate this article for the adoption of this text. “if the situation should require it to be used”, warned government spokesman Olivier Véran. For the latter, it is “very much to fear that oppositions are tempted to lead France to blockage.” Follow the situation in our live.
The stormy session for the majority on Tuesday evening. The Minister of Public Accounts, Gabriel Attal, denounced a “coalition of irresponsibility”Tuesday, after the rejection of several key articles unraveling the 2023-2027 budget planning bill. “You do not have, Mr. Minister, the right to call deputies irresponsible”firmly retorted André Chassaigne, the boss of the elected Communists. “You behave like an insolent who does not respect national representation.”
The majority is annoyed by the number of amendments. According to Gabriel Attal, Minister Delegate for Public Accounts, the opposition filed “more than 3,500 amendments” for some “symbolic reasons”. He claims to wait “a lot of debate” which will be taken to the National Assembly, “but still there must be a debate and not an obstruction or a desire to block”.
A law project “responsible”according to the executive. A budget “to the nearest euro”, this is what the government said when presenting the text in September. The ambition, according to the executive, is to “protect the French”without yielding anything to the “responsibility” budgetary. We present it in this article.