16:05
2,000 amendments to review
Nearly 2,000 amendments remain to be examined, and certain sensitive subjects, such as the taxation of “superprofits”, have not yet been addressed.
What amendments will the government include in the text submitted to 49.3? The last arbitrations are in progress, knowing that he can retain or dismiss as he pleases those who have been voted on or rejected, and even those who have not yet been examined.
Facing the Renaissance deputies, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne stressed that there had been “interesting proposals which will be taken into account in the final text”.
15:53
A “hypocritical” government believes the RN
For the vice-president RN of the National Assembly Sébastien Chenu, the government is “quite hypocritical since it makes us debate” (on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday) while “everything we vote at night in the Assembly national, he will deconstruct it”.
Nupes deputies also criticized the presidential camp for “pretending” to debate “while waiting for 49.3”.
12:53
“A presidential minority that does not accept the democratic game”
For Danièle Obono, “Macronie” has “a problem in recognizing that, on a certain number of votes, it can be outvoted”. “It is a presidential minority which does not accept the democratic game since it shows its feverishness, its weakness” while “the debates took place for several hours and were in good standing”, judged the elected rebellious on the Franceinfo platform.
12:43
The 49.3 “remains a possibility of activation”, notes Véran
49.3 “remains a possibility of activation” in view of the debates on the budgetary texts, confirmed the government spokesperson, who does not exclude its use “if necessary” for “all the budgetary texts”. “The evolution of the debates will determine when 49.3 can be tabled,” he said. Incidentally, Olivier Véran recalled that “when the amendments do not distort the work done for 5 years (…), then the government may have to retain them”.
12:30
“The government reserves the right to use 49.3”
“The government reserves the right to use 49.3”, confirms the government spokesperson, Olivier Véran, at the end of the Council of Ministers.
12:25
Mathilde Panot castigates a “brutalization of the debates”
Asked this morning on France 2, the rebellious deputy Mathilde Panot castigated a “brutalization of the debates” in the National Assembly. “We pass a text without a vote. In which democracy does this exist? “, referring to the use of 49.3 expected in the afternoon. “When the Macronists were in the majority in the Assembly, they used to force everything through and the National Assembly was the doormat of the government and the Elysée. That time is over.”
12:17
Section 49.3, a lethal double-edged sword
This article of the Constitution allows the government to have a text adopted without a vote. The President of the Republic authorized its use on Wednesday for the 2023 finance bill. Explanations.
11:55
A “probable” trigger
This triggering on Wednesday is “probable”, government spokesman Olivier Véran said on Tuesday, after eight days of sometimes heated debates. Nothing “scandalous” in this use of 49.3, tried to defuse this Wednesday morning on France Inter the boss of the Modem François Bayrou. He recalls that thanks to “this mechanism thought out by the Constitution”, “the government has the means to force the adoption of a text when the oppositions in reality agree to it”.
11:52
Hello and welcome to this live,
We are going to follow, in real time, the first reading in the National Assembly of the revenue part of the draft budget for 2023, while the government intends to use the weapon of 49-3, in order to shorten the debates.