PARIS, Oct 12 (Reuters) – The Council of Ministers on Wednesday granted Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne the possibility of resorting to Article 49.3 of the Constitution in the event of a deadlock in Parliament on the budgetary texts, the spokesman said. of the government.
“The Council of Ministers has provided that if the situation requires it, the Prime Minister would be able, when she decides, to trigger the procedure,” said Olivier Véran.
“We anticipate the situation which would push us to resort to it to avoid depriving France of a budget”, he said, adding that he could not say “neither when nor under what precise conditions” the device would be activated.
Article 49.3, by which the executive commits its responsibility to a text of law, allows the adoption of this text without a vote unless the opposition succeeds in having a motion of censure adopted.
“We cannot take the risk of leaving France without a budget, at a time when the threats are so numerous”, warned the Minister Delegate in charge of Public Accounts, Gabriel Attal, from the start of the examination in first reading of the first budget for Emmanuel Macron’s second term on Monday in the Assembly.
Nearly 3,400 amendments were tabled on the first part of the PLF 2023 alone, that of revenue. (Written by Myriam Rivet, edited by Jean-Stéphane Brosse)
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