The committee examination of the 2023 draft budget is proving complicated for the Macronist deputies, who were outvoted several times on Tuesday and Wednesday, announcing heated debates in the hemicycle from October 10.
Tuesday evening, with a coalition of opposition parties, the Finance Committee thus rejected the introductory article of the finance bill, the one which sets the objective of containing the public deficit at 5% of GDP in 2023.
Forced to arbitrate between presence in committee and in the hemicycle, where the Assembly is examining the bill on unemployment insurance at the same time, the macronists lost several votes on Tuesday during the examination of the amendments to this draft budget. .
Against the opinion of the general rapporteur for the budget Jean-Ren Cazeneuve (Renaissance), the deputies for example supported an amendment by Charles de Courson (Liot group) in favor of a differentiated scale of indexation on inflation of the tranches of income tax, in order to give a fiscal boost to the most modest households and to the middle classes.
Same scenario on Wednesday with the vote against the opinion of the rapporteur of an amendment by the socialist Christine Pires Beaune to transform a tax reduction on reception costs in Ehpad into a tax credit.
These amendments will however have to be re-examined in public session, from October 10 in the hemicycle. The debates promise to be electric for lack of the Macronist deputies having an absolute majority.
The government is already preparing to draw Article 49.3 of the Constitution, to pass the budget without a vote, unless a motion of censure is adopted.
Unlike this summer on the purchasing power package, the executive should not be able to count on support from LR, who intends to vote against the finance bill.
Tuesday evening, despite warnings from the Minister of Public Accounts Gabriel Attal, the deputies of the Finance Committee also rejected the entire 2023-2027 budget programming bill which sets the path for reducing the deficit during the five-year period. .
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It is the initial version of the government which will arrive in session.
The right generally criticizes the absence of savings measures and overly optimistic growth prospects or tax returns.
The left contests the opposite austerity policy, while the RN accuses the government of going under the caudine forks of the European Commission.
Overall, if some still had illusions about the attitude of the oppositions, RN, LFI, PS, LR combined, at least it is clear: they will block everything. At any price, we reacted on the side of Bercy on Tuesday evening.