The National Assembly on Wednesday rejected the first three articles of the Social Security budget, failures with limited consequences for the executive which planned to resort to 49.3 for the adoption of this text without a vote.
On the second day of the examination of this Scu financing bill (PLFSS) in first reading, the deputies voted against the first article of the text which provides for an upwardly revised deficit for 2023, 8.8 billion euros (compared to 8.2 billion initially planned).
The 2023 accounts are notably weighed down by a surge in health spending, under the effect of salary increases at the hospital and by a greater than expected increase in community care.
The article was rejected with 119 votes to 87 under the crossfire of all the oppositions in the face of the relative majority of the presidential camp.
Article 2, which corrects the national health insurance objective (Ondam) for the year 2023, then suffered the same fate (116 votes against 109).
The extension that you are putting in, because you did not plan enough, is still insufficient, deplored LFI MP Caroline Fiat.
At the start of the session, the deputies began by rejecting the preliminary article of the text.
This table of accounts for all Social Security administrations includes the accounts of the Social Debt Amortization Fund (Cades) or even supplementary retirement schemes, in addition to those of the branches of compulsory schemes.
An expanded scope which makes it possible to display positive balances in 2023 and 2024 in the accounting tables presented.
The Cades surpluses generate a positive balance while the Social Security accounts are in deficit, denounced the socialist deputy Jerme Guedj. It is an accounting table which disguises an austerity policy, said the communist deputy Pierre Dharville.
I would like you to delete each of the articles, but you are incapable of coming up with an alternative PLFSS, because you are not saying the same thing on both sides of this chamber, the Minister of Accounts said to the opposition. public, Thomas Cazenave.
The question posed to us: is what do we do tomorrow? We reiterate to you that we need a text, he continued.
These first setbacks from the start of the examination of the articles of the PLFSS reinforce the hypothesis of a rapid recourse to a new 49.3 by the government.
The deputies expect their debates to be interrupted on Wednesday evening or Thursday by the triggering of this constitutional tool, already activated last week for the state budget.
49.3 will similarly allow the adoption of the revenue part of the PLFSS without a vote on first reading, unless a motion of censure is adopted.
The government will be able to integrate the amendments of its choice, from the more than 3,000 tabled.