The opposition, which had rejected the 2023-2027 budget programming bill in committee, partially unraveled this text in the Assembly on Tuesday, refusing key articles against the advice of the government, auguring a tough battle around the budget. .
In a debate that started without a hitch for the majority, which initially rejected all the opposition amendments and approved the path of reducing the deficit below 3% by 2027, the situation is reversed at night.
In quick succession, the opposition rejected three key articles: the first, which set the increase in the number of jobs per minister at 1% over the five-year period and that of operators at 5%, was rejected by 157 votes to 149.
The majority was also outvoted (184-194) on the article setting the budgets allocated to State missions, as well as on the article establishing the maximum amount of State financial assistance to local authorities (175-194). 199).
After a suspension of the session, the deputies resumed discussions on the text, a sort of introduction to the debate on the 2023 budget which must begin in the crowd.
Austerity for the left, bad spending for the RN, a deficit to reduce more quickly for LR: the opposition fired all the woods against the text presented by the government, even if it did not manage to unite its forces on the first articles.
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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As on the other texts, the executive is confronted with the absence of an absolute majority in the National Assembly. And contrary to what it is preparing for the 2023 draft budget, the government does not intend to use Article 49.3 of the Constitution – which allows adoption without a vote – for the programming law.
Because outside the finance bill and Social Security budget, the government can only use 49-3 once per session and it does not want to burn this cartridge from this 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 in the Assembly. The solemn vote on the text by the deputies is scheduled for October 25.