7:38 p.m. : #PLF2023 A heavyweight of the majority at @franceinfo: “there shouldn’t be 49.3 tonight because the idea is to allow the debate to the end, so until Wednesday. Unless the amendment on the ISF had just been voted, but frankly, I do not believe it for a second…”
7:37 p.m. : While the examination of the 2023 finance bill continues in the Assembly, a heavyweight of the majority tells franceinfo that the hypothesis of a 49.3 this evening is moving away strongly, despite the threat brandished a little earlier by the Minister of Economy Bruno Le Maire.
6:51 p.m. : The majority can (a little) blow: all the amendments from the NUPES or the RN proposing a return of the ISF was rejected. The oppositions voted in dispersed order. #DirectAN #PLF2023
6:50 p.m. : The National Rally presents its own amendment for “a new form of #ISF, a tax on speculative wealth”. #DirectAN #Budget #PLF2023 https://t.co/YcRFAPcarw
6:50 p.m. : A series of identical amendments from the Nupes aims to restore the #ISF, “by adding an ecological component”, as detailed by @MathildePanot, according to the environmental footprint of real estate and financial assets. #DirectAN #Budget #PLF2023 https://t.co/eqWpLmR0UK
6:45 p.m. : We are also returning to the National Assembly, where the examination of the finance bill for 2023 resumed. The atmosphere is still tense in the hemicycle. Thousands of amendments still remain to be examined, in the first place on the proposal of the Nupes to restore the ISF, the wealth tax. But all the amendments on this subject were rejected according to the journalists on the spot.
6:43 p.m. : The use of 49.3 is on the franceinfo “Talk” program, currently on Twitch. You can follow it live and ask all your questions to the guests of the day: Gaspard Gantzer, former communications adviser to François Hollande, Benjamin Morel, lecturer in public law at the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas and Benjamin Lucas, deputy Nudes from Yvelines.
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5:50 p.m. : The use of 49.3 this evening is “under debate according to the evolution of the debates on the critical points”, entrusts a member of the majority to our journalist Margaux Duguet.
5:47 p.m. : While the tension is growing in the hemicycle on the budget, the use of 49.3 is on the program of the “Talk” of franceinfo on Twitch. With in the studio: Gaspard Gantzer, former communication adviser to François Hollande, Benjamin Morel, lecturer in public law at the University of Paris II Panthéon-AssasB and Benjamin Lucas, deputy Nupes des Yvelines. Do not hesitate to ask your questions there from 6 p.m.
5:39 p.m. : General mobilization at Renaissance. A press conference scheduled for 6 p.m. has been canceled, franceinfo has learned. A decision taken to allow all the deputies of the group to go as quickly as possible to the hemicycle, which is examining a series of amendments on the restoration of the ISF.
5:26 p.m. : Debates resume in the Assembly on the budget. The deputies examine a series of amendments for the restoration of the wealth tax (ISF), abolished under the first mandate of Emmanuel Macron and replaced by a tax on real estate wealth (IFI).
4:53 p.m. : The meeting is suspended for about ten minutes, at the request of the Minister for the Economy.
4:53 p.m. : The president of the session, the vice-president Hélène Laporte (RN): “there were 14 points of order on the same subject (the sorting of the amendments), we will perhaps start” ?
4:52 p.m. : It is a sign of the boiling atmosphere which reigns in the Assembly: the examination of the budget has resumed for less than an hour and the points of order are multiplying.
4:46 p.m. : “Between the compromise and the 49.3 you have to choose, you refused the compromise, it was you who chose the 49.3.”
Bruno Le Maire responds to opposition deputies and ensures that “the voice of the people will of course be respected”. “I don’t think I’m discovering a big open secret by saying that the day we take our responsibilities, you will table a motion of censure”adds the Minister of the Economy in the hemicycle.
4:32 p.m. : Boris Vallaud (PS) also regrets in turn that the executive is preparing to put an end to the debates with the use of 49-3. “There was no obstruction and we would like to continue”, he says to Bruno Le Maire #directAN
4:32 p.m. : Véronique Louwagie (LR) also expresses her “disappointment” and her “bitterness”. “We worked well but we feel it’s a charade. This taste for theater is not up to par, ”she regrets
4:32 p.m. : Wind of revolt of the oppositions to the Assembly. At the opening of the session, ALL the speakers: rebels, socialists, RNs, communists, environmentalists ask the government: what is the point of sitting if the sorting of the amendments has already been done?
4:30 p.m. : Debates on the budget are resuming in the Assembly, and tempers are heating up over the probable recourse to 49.3. “We have worked well, but we have the feeling that it is a masquerade. This taste for theater is not up to par”estimates the deputy Les Républicains, Véronique Louwagie.