They want to shorten the debates. Like Philippe Juvin, Les Républicains (LR) deputy for Hauts-de-Seine, several elected officials from the “common base” are asking the Prime Minister, Michel Barnier, “to signal the end of recess and very quickly use article 49.3 to adopt the budget.” And for these LR or Renaissance deputies, the sooner the better. “There is a perverse effect in not using it right awaysaid Mr. Juvin at the microphone of Franceinfo, Friday 1is November. As all the deputies know that it will end with 49.3, they free themselves and propose anything and everything in their amendments. »
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The right thus accuses the New Popular Front (NFP), associated with the National Rally (RN), of having already voted 60 billion euros in additional taxes in the revenue part of the finance bill (PLF). “This budget no longer looks like anything. You have to draw the 49.3 quite quickly”, confirms the elected official (LR) of the Territoire de Belfort Ian Boucard. “The French have already contemplated enough of the great nonsense of the amendments of the RN and the “rebellious”extends Jean-Didier Berger, LR deputy for Hauts-de-Seine. 49.3, which is the constitutional tool most hated by the French, will become a protection tool for them. »
In Laurent Wauquiez's Republican Right group, several elected officials consider this budget impossible to vote on as it stands. A quick 49.3 would have the merit for them of allowing a return to the government's initial copy, and then negotiating the amendments to be kept for “put the brakes on tax increases and go further on reducing spending”believes Jean-Didier Berger. However, some call for patience. “You have to wait a little and distance yourself from the cleaver style of Elisabeth Borne”nuance Philippe Gosselin. The elected LR from La Manche refers to the systematic and rapid use of 49.3 by the former prime minister to adopt the last two budgets.
“We need an act of authority”
Having become a Renaissance MP again, Mme Borne encourages Michel Barnier in this direction. “Taking responsibility for a version of the budget in which we took into account the amendments presented to the Assembly is a less bad solution”explained the elected official from Calvados on RTL on October 30. Several members of the Ensemble pour la République (EPR) group are pleading for this solution. “We wouldn’t be unhappy if it went to 49.3”admits Moselle MP Ludovic Mendes. “It is paradoxical for MPs to request the use of 49.3, but we need an act of authority”argues Mathieu Lefèvre (Val-de-Marne), main defender of the Macronist supply policy with Charles Rodwell (Yvelines) and Charles Sitzenstuhl (Bas-Rhin).
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