The chairman of the Finance Committee of the National Assembly defends the counter-budget presented by Nupes on Thursday 20 October.
By Marc Vignaud
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Lhe government has finally decided to shorten the debates on its 2023 draft budget in the National Assembly. On Wednesday October 19, he drew article 49.3 of the Constitution to pass the first part of the text, devoted to revenue, without a vote, after several days of debate, not having an absolute majority at the Palais-Bourbon.
On Friday, it was to have the Social Security financing bill adopted (at first reading) that he resorted to this weapon. An attitude assimilated to a forced passage by the opposition, even a denial of democracy.
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In partnership with Ecorama, the economy program on the Boursorama portal, Point interviewed Éric Coquerel, the president La France insoumise of the Finance Committee of the National Assembly. The elected representative of Seine-Saint-Denis details the main lines of the counter-budget presented Thursday, October 20 by the Nupes, the alliance of left-wing parties, which provides for 100 billion in additional public expenditure and 135 billion in revenue thanks to increases massive taxes on the wealthy and on corporations. This figure of La France insoumise defends the indexation of wages to inflation and its tax shock, in particular via the taxation of “superprofits”. Maintenance.
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