Parliamentarians from all sides are invited Tuesday afternoon to Bercy by the government for the first meeting intended to prepare the 2023 budget, the examination of which in Parliament promises to be stormy, we learned Thursday from parliamentary sources.
Discussions will continue on three other dates (September 15, 20 and 21) fixed for representatives of the National Assembly and Senate Finance Committees, according to the invitations that deputies told AFP they received on Thursday.
The government intends to present its tracks and ongoing arbitrationsand change their proposals before the parliamentary debate in the fall, explained the Minister of Public Accounts Gabriel Attal, launching the idea last weekend.
The Dialogues of Bercywhich will be held from September 13 to 21are an unprecedented approach and opportunity to work together in the service of the French, he added Thursday evening in a statement to AFP.
Oppositions, skeptics, hesitate
Our collective responsibility is to give the country a budget. Even if part of the opposition has announced that it will not give this draft budget a chance even before having read it, we are continuing to dialogue, continued the minister.
The initiative, called Dialogues de Bercy, had received a cold reception from the opposition, LR like RN and LFI immediately warning that, whatever the case, they would not vote for this budget.
But if the RN declined the invitation even before having formally received it, and that LR has not yet made a decision, the various groups of the left alliance Nupes in the Assembly have decided to attend at least on the first date. I think we have to go there, without many illusions, but we have to go there. Depending on how the first meeting goes, we’ll see what happens next, Socialist MP Christine Pires Beaune told AFP.
The same goes for the chairman of the Finance Committee, ric Coquerel (LFI), who indicated that he would go there but with great caution: If by way of consultation work, we see that he does not there’s not much to discuss, if it’s com, we’ll let you know.
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Why not go to the first dj meeting?slipped Vronique Louwagie (LR), concerned however not to weaken the Parliament which is the privileged and democratic place of the debate.
On the side of the senators, we are coordinating the positions of each other, indicated the general rapporteur of the budget Jean-Franois Husson (LR), who also plans to go to the first meeting.
With these Bercy Dialogues, the government wishes to illustrate its desire to be open to the opposition’s proposals, even if many macronists are already convinced that it will be necessary to go through article 49-3 of the Constitution to have the bill adopted. budget, for lack of an absolute majority in the Assembly. This constitutional tool makes it possible to have a text adopted without a vote, except adoption of a motion of censure.
In addition to the draft budget, the Dialogues should make it possible to discuss the social security financing bill (PLFSS) and the public finance programming law, a multi-annual framework for the country’s budget trajectory.
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