“There is no forced passage“, insists Aurore Bergé, president of the Renaissance group in the National Assembly, invited this Thursday, October 20 on France Inter, concerning the use of article 49.3 of the Constitution to have the first part of the bill adopted, without a vote. finance for 2023. For Aurore Bergé, the “oppositions overplay a little astonishment, surprise, even indignation“, while they “had said, in anticipation, even before knowing what was in this text or what could be in this text at the end, that they would not vote for it“.
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While the majority is accused of having pretended to debate, knowing that 49.3 would be used, the MP considers that, “if so, then so do they [les groupes de l’opposition] pretended to debate”. “Why did they take part in the Bercy dialogue, why did they take part in the parliamentary debate, if in anticipation they knew that whatever happened they would refuse to vote for this text?“, asks Aurore Bergé.
MNA Renaissance sees in this recourse the manifestation of the “responsibility“of the majority, faced with the risk of having”a coalition of all oppositions, with common votes from LFI, RN, all the left and LR“. She denounces “two blocks, extreme left and extreme right, which league together and applaud each other“, while insubordinate France has tabled a motion of censure and the National Rally plans to do so during the day.
Asked about the likelihood of a systematic use of 49.3 to counter the lack of an absolute majority in the Assembly, the head of the Renaissance group believes that 49.3 “is not inevitable”. “This summer, you all thought that we wouldn’t be able to get the texts through, they were also budgetary texts, and we succeeded“, she recalls. But, according to her, “this supposes getting out of postures” and of “do not say in advance that the vote will be unfavorable regardless of the outcome of the debates“.