2023-12-21 19:20:54
By Le Figaro with AFP
Published 30 minutes ago, Updated 5 minutes ago
Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne in the hemicycle of the National Assembly. JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP
The motion of censure carried by the left received only 116 votes, far from the 289 votes necessary to bring down the government.
Parliament definitively adopted the 2024 draft budget on Thursday, after the rejection in the National Assembly of a motion of censure from the left. The motion received 116 votes, far from the 289 votes needed to bring down the government. It responded to the 23rd use of the constitutional weapon of 49.3 since the arrival of Élisabeth Borne in Matignon to have this text adopted without a vote.
The state budget for 2024 was definitively adopted Thursday in the Assembly by the rejection of a motion of censure from the left, signing the end of a financial year still marked by a series of 49.3 which tires the opposition like majority. In the shadow of the flammable debates on immigration, it was in a very sparse hemicycle that the deputies met for the last time of the year.
By calling for censorship, the rebel Éric Coquerel, president of the Finance Committee, contested the budget as much as the law on immigration, which he judges “ignominious» et «nauseating“. Only 116 MPs contributed their votes to the left-wing motion, far from the 289 needed to bring down the government. Its rejection leads to the adoption of the 2024 finance bill (PLF).
Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne defended the creation of more than 2,000 police and gendarmerie positions, an increase in resources for Justice and Defense, upgrades for teachers and a “budget vert» with an additional 7 billion euros in favor of the ecological transition. Like last year, the government used the constitutional weapon of 49.3 ten times to pass this state budget and that of Social Security adopted on December 4 without a vote.
49.3, motion of censure, 49.3…: the now well-regulated ballet has created wear and tear in the hemicycle, more than last year when the deputies discovered the new configuration of the National Assembly without an absolute majority. The opposition denounces “contempt of Parliament» et «denial of democracy».
The government is on a crest between its spending and the desire to reduce the public deficit to 4.4% of GDP in 2024. Bercy has promised to seek 12 billion additional savings per year from 2025, a assignment “difficile», recognize Macronist deputies. The left is already pointing “austerity“. She criticizes the government for not doing enough on ecology and housing and for refusing to increase taxes on the richest or large businesses.
The MoDem tax on share buybacks ruled out
In the majority, the MoDem demanded in vain measures of “justice fiscale» such as a tax on share buybacks of large companies, after the one he wanted on “superdividendes» last year, but which the government had ruled out. Bruno Le Maire, the Minister of the Economy, “is a little rigid about new recipes“, squeaks a centrist MP. “Share buybacks don’t make much money, but they’re politically important».
The right, on the other hand, considers that structural economies are missing. LR notably demanded a cut of 6 billion euros in the amount of unemployment compensation. Faced with the high cost of living, Bruno Le Maire stressed on Thursday that “the inflationary crisis is behind us“, even if “it remains very hard for many of our compatriots».
In the home stretch, debates focused in particular on housing shortages, a “social bombs», according to many elected officials. Between two 49.3, the government allowed a Senate measure to pass to reduce more drastically than expected the tax loophole enjoyed by furnished tourist rentals like Airbnb.
A more demanding 2025 budget
A “hardware error», We explain to the government, which assures that the measure will not apply in 2024, despite the voices on the left and in the majority who demand it. Another controversy, the government supported, against the advice of the opposition, advantageous tax measures for international sports federations, the main goal of which is to try to attract the powerful Fifa, the major body of world football, to France. A “mini-paradis fiscal», denounced Lisette Pollet (RN).
The executive has also taken over a tax voted in the Senate on the platforms of “streaming» musical, in order to finance the National Music Center (CNM). Enough to bristle at Spotify France, which announced in retaliation that it would stop supporting the Francofolies de La Rochelle and the Printemps de Bourges, from 2024. To improve the construction of the budget, the government intends to bring forward budgetary discussions next year, including with the oppositions. “The 2025 budget will be even more demanding. We have to build it very early», Explained Minister of Public Accounts Thomas Cazenave.
”
data-script=”
>
#Parliament #definitively #adopts #budget #rejection #motion #censure #Assembly