the National Assembly rejects a motion of censure, the text adopted on new reading

The National Assembly rejected a motion of censure from LFI on Monday, December 18, shortly before midnight, thus adopting the 2024 draft state budget in a new reading. The motion received only 110 votes out of the 289 needed to bring down the government. It responded to Elisabeth Borne’s twenty-second recourse to the constitutional weapon of 49.3 to pass a text without a vote.

A new 49.3 from the Prime Minister is expected on Tuesday evening with a view to the final adoption of this budget before the weekend. In the meantime, LFI speaker François Piquemal pounded the “22 (49.3) passed in less than two years”. “Twenty-two (…) If you ever get bored after the reshuffle, you can always organize a football match with your 49.3”eleven against eleven, he told the Prime Minister.

“Elisabeth limited herself”, castigates La France insoumise

The LFI elected official also castigated the immigration bill, in the midst of negotiations in the Assembly between deputies and senators on this text. He accused the presidential camp “to embrace the ideas of the extreme right”. “Elisabeth limited herself”, he said. Elisabeth Borne criticized the “Nupes, to replace ideas with invectives” and to “the extreme left to regularly mix its voices with those of the extreme right”.

Under the protests, the Prime Minister assured to defend a “budget which considerably increases the resources of our school” and in favor of “the ecological transition”. Like the left, LR criticized an amendment by the majority reintroducing into the budget advantageous tax measures to attract in particular Fifa, the body of world football, to France, a proposal supported by the government, and which the Senate had wished to delete.