The executive overcame on Tuesday the first amendments of the opposition on the draft budget programming law 2023-2027, rejected in committee, obtaining in particular the approval of its trajectory of reduction of the deficit below 3% by 2027.
Austerity for the left, bad spending for the RN, a deficit to reduce more quickly for LR: the opposition fired all the guns against the text presented by the government, but failed to unite its forces to adopt its first amendments put to the vote.
After the surprise rejection by the Finance Committee by 36 votes to 30 a week ago, the fate reserved for the Assembly this text on the management of public finances over the five-year period was expected before the opening of the debate on the 2023 budget, at the case where the opposition manages to impose another trajectory on the executive.
The first exchanges showed, on the contrary, that the deputies were divided between right supporters of a greater reduction in public spending and a left which fears in particular that the hospital pays whatever it costs, according to the PS Boris Vallaud .
We do not want to slow down our trajectory too abruptly to avoid an increase in unemployment and a slowdown in growth, explained the general rapporteur for the budget, Jean-Ren Cazeneuve.
Before the resumption of the debates at 9:30 p.m., all the amendments tabled by the left to delete the articles submitted for debate were rejected. Those of LR, whose deputy Vronique Lauwagie proposed to the executive a plan of bureaucratic sobriety, had little more success.
The Minister of Public Accounts Gabriel Attal had warned that failure to adopt this plan could cause a delay, a delay, or even a reduction in the European funds paid to us under the recovery plan.
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Faced with the absence of an absolute majority in the National Assembly, the executive does not intend to use Article 49.3 of the Constitution – which allows adoption without a vote – for the programming law.
This programming text plans to reduce the deficit to below 3% of GDP by 2027 and to stabilize the number of civil servants over the entire five-year period.
The rejection in committee did not prevent the arrival of the initial bill. The solemn vote by the deputies of the text is scheduled for October 25.