The Senate in turn rejected Monday, after the National Assembly, the 2021 accounts of the State, then the 2022 accounts, a rejection of Parliament “unprecedented since the July monarchy”, according to Gabriel Attal, but without major consequences.
Dominated by the right-wing opposition, the Senate is accustomed to rejecting budgetary texts. But if previously the approval of past budgets was a simple accounting formality for deputies, it has turned into a headache in the new configuration of the Assembly, without an absolute majority since June 2022.
On August 3, 2022, the deputies had already rejected the 2021 settlement bill, even if the course of the text had been a little earlier than this year.
What justified the rejection of this text last year is still topical, considers the general rapporteur of the Senate budget Jean-Franois Husson (LR), deploring that the public accounts of France remain deeply degraded.
With this rejection, warned the Minister of Public Accounts Gabriel Attal, we will leave our country for two consecutive years without a law approving the accounts of the State.
Does this rejection jeopardize our public finances? To be honest, the answer is no. (…) The reality is that the immediate consequences are above all of an accounting nature, he continued.
But for the minister, the successive rejections take us into unknown territory.
Examined in the crowd, the Social Security accounts for 2022 must also be rejected by senators as they were by deputies.
The general rapporteur of the Social Affairs Committee Elisabeth Doineau (centrist) considered that she could not approve a bill containing manifestly erroneous 2021 and 2022 accounts, corresponding to amounts that the Court of Auditors refused to certify.