the president lectures the deputies in a meeting

The start of the school year promised to be complicated for Emmanuel Macron, she was. The President of the Republic must now face the risks of a shortage of gasoline while TotalEnergies employees have been blocking certain refineries for several weeks, thus preventing the supply of fuel to service stations. Still dealing with the consequences of the war in Ukraine on the country’s economy, while an energy crisis and inflation worry the French as winter approaches, Emmanuel Macron calls on deputies to remain in battle order.

This is essentially the message he would have sent to his relatives during a crisis meeting this Monday, October 17, when several tens of thousands of private and public employees were preparing to parade on the occasion of a one-day nationwide strike the following day. The reason ? Absenteeism at the Palais Bourbon. Moreover, in delicate situations as was the case during the first three days of this week after The world. The newspaper mentions the absence of 30 deputies during the discussions on the amendments tabled by the oppositions in the National Assembly as part of the vote for the 2023 Budget. “Monday afternoon, we are examining eight amendments in the hemicycle, from the Nupes or even from the RN, restoring a form of ISF. However, 30 deputies from the majority are missing on the spot” reveal our colleagues before specifying that a request has therefore been made to suspend the session.

The deputies of Emmanuel Macron tired?

Still according to non-colleagues, Bruno Le Maire immediately suggested to Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne to use 49.3 to validate the already long-debated 2023 Budget. He is told to wait … But now Emmanuel Macron – who is currently in the grip of doubt – becomes aware of these latest developments when his Minister of the Economy has joined him for a crisis meeting. That’s when he showed up “ulcer” and that he thus demanded from Macronie “a burst of presenteeism”. “I don’t want a state of mind” he growled.

On the side of the Renaissance deputies, many of whom have been worried about the president for several months, we complain about the pressure exerted and the intense rhythm imposed by the debates in the National Assembly. The world reports that for several days “many express their frustration” : “They receive reminders or the obligation to justify themselves in the event of absence”. According to a member of the government, “the deputies complain of being tired, of being sent like cannon fodder into the hemicycle”. “But it’s their job” also recalls the latter.

Be that as it may, Elisabeth Borne had indeed to engage the responsibility of her government on Wednesday, October 19 at the end of the afternoon. It triggered article 49.3 of the Constitution for the adoption of the first part of the 2023 finance bill.