Are we going again towards a series of 49.3? Many highly anticipated texts will enter parliamentary debates at the start of the school year, such as the Immigration bill but also the public finance programming law, essential to receive the billions promised to France in the Union’s recovery plan. European. But without consensus, it is difficult to keep the agenda imagined by Emmanuel Macron. “For there to be consensus, you need trust,” recalls Patrick Kanner, PS senator from the North and president of the Socialist group in the Senate, guest of Europe 1 Matin this Thursday.
Find points of agreement
Unconvinced by the interview given by the Head of State to the newspaper Pointthe senator regrets the methods used by Emmanuel Macron: it is a “very personal, very centralized, very top-down approach. Finally, we find the Jupiterian model of the President of the Republic and I hear this invitation to bring the heads of party”, he analyzes, specifying that as president of a parliamentary group, he has only met Emmanuel Macron once in six years.
An impossible conversation? If the government and the opposition parties do not find points of agreement, the threat of new uses of 49.3 is already pointing the tip of its nose, to the regret of the leaders of parliamentary groups. “For the referendums I say ‘Chiche!’, we will see what the reaction of the French will be. But to use 49.3 ten times for the 2023 budget, and perhaps the same thing for 2024. the public finance programming law, a 49.3 on Immigration. Well, finally, it becomes an authoritarian state having to use 49.3 all the time”, laments Patrick Kanner.
“It is ultimately denying Parliament and at some point, it will not be able to hold,” concludes the senator. And in response to one or more 49.3, it is not forbidden for parliamentary groups to launch a motion of censure, as was the case during the debates on pension reform.