The examination of the Social Security financing bill (PLFSS) for 2023 will remain a special case in the parliamentary history of the Ve Republic. After five 49.3 and the failure of the sixth motion of censure on this text, defended this time by the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes), Friday, December 2, the budget of the “Secu” is now considered as definitively adopted by the parliament.
“It is a text for the most fragile, a text to protect those who suffer”, declared the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, after having evoked “Massive resources for our hospital, measures for cancer patients, for single mothers, for people with disabilities, for dependent elderly people”under the challenges of the deputies of the Nupes.
In their desire to overthrow the government in the name of “trampling of Parliament” and of “the urgency of rebuilding the public hospital”, the four left-wing groups gathered only 87 votes – including 60 from La France insoumise (LFI) –, far from the absolute majority of 289 votes necessary for government censorship. Rejecting in principle the votes of the 89 deputies of the National Rally (RN) in its text, the Nupes did not manage to mobilize all the 148 signatories of this ninth motion of censure debated since the start of the legislature.
It was at the end of a new confrontation between the oppositions and the government, which had become almost a ritual in the National Assembly in this budgetary autumn, that Elisabeth Borne concluded the session by emphasizing that“in three years, Michel Rocard [premier ministre socialiste entre 1988 et 1991]that’s twenty-eight 49.3 and only five motions of censure”finding in this comparison the means of imputing to the oppositions the responsibility for shortened or even non-existent debates. “We have to put the chicken back on the egg: without 49.3, no motion of censure”, supported Moetai Brotherson, communist deputy from Polynesia. “Do we want the debates to continue to take this turn? Do we want to regularly put on the spectacle of heartbreak and sterile debates within this Assembly? », got annoyed Mme Borne.
Absence of meaningful measures for the hospital
Before the Matignon tenant spoke, the various speakers from the opposition groups expressed in turn their frustrations on the quality of the parliamentary discussions, but also their deep disagreements on the content of the PLFSS, and even on pension reform. From 9:30 p.m., the “rebellious” elected official from Bouches-du-Rhône Manuel Bompard launched into a diatribe against the government’s project, whose arrival in Parliament is announced for the spring of 2023. “Contrary to what you claim, you do not have popular support or a popular mandate to raise the retirement age”, he asserted.
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