Budget 2025: accused of wanting to reject the text, the government continues to face setbacks in the Assembly

VideoBudget: Barnier asks for a “fair” and “balanced” effort from the French

These opposing votes took place in a hemicycle where the “common base” forces that should have supported the government were, as since the beginning of the week, very scarce, with variable alliances. If the RN mixed its votes with those of the left to limit the fiscal niche for shipowners, only the New Popular Front achieved the progressive restoration of the CVAE, and it is a heterogeneous alliance of RN, LR, elected socialists and communists who they got the better of it. the car fine.

The Navy targeted

Already on Friday the government had suffered numerous defeats on this “revenue” part of the budget, with the suppression of the temporary surtax on large businesses, after the left had significantly increased the rates, or the suppression of the electricity tax increase, fought by his own troops.

The examination of the text once again sparked lively exchanges on Saturday, with particular attention to the National Rally, accused by the left of being the “print” of the government and by the Macronist camp of having an unpredictable political line on corporate taxation.

“We are accustomed to the economic program of the National Gathering which changes every three months, generally also at the pace of the interviews with (its president) Giordano Bardella. But in the end, evidently, the program is not yet stabilized,” joked MP David Amiel (Together for the Republic, former Renaissance). The RN accused groups supporting the government of engaging in a “budget sabotage operation (…) due to their absence.”

Parliamentarians “on their last legs”

Opposition deputies suspect that the government is pushing for a 49.3, allowing a major reworking of Michel Barnier‘s budget project. Others wonder whether instead, as in the Finance Committee, a rejection of the text is not being sought, which would allow it to be transmitted to the Senate, without even having to examine the “spent” part of the budget.

The question of constitutional deadlines was invited into the debates on Thursday, prompting the left to announce the withdrawal of a quarter of its amendments and a “hundred” EPR, in an attempt to conclude the examination of the text this week, before the solemn vote on Tuesday .