Both victories and defeats are often illusions in the National Assembly as the situation can swing to one side or the other at any time. Tuesday morning, during press briefings, the president of the FI group, Mathilde Panot, like the spokesperson for the environmentalist deputies, Léa Balage El Mariki, still celebrated their ability to “build majorities”.
They highlighted the multiple amendments that the left voted on in the Hemicycle on the revenue part of the 2025 finance bill (PLF) to tax the rich and multinationals, finance our social model and support the most modest. The leader of the PCF deputies, André Chassaigne, also welcomed: “I would almost go so far as to say that this first part of the budget has a whiff of class. »
The RN saves the day for Michel Barnier
At the end of the afternoon, it was indeed class interest that prevailed, but in an inverse balance of power. The Macronist and LR elected representatives voted against the first part of the budget, with the support of the RN deputies, thus annihilating the amendment work obtained by the left.
“The new government, formed in defiance of the electoral results, has remained entrenched in its certainties, like the guardian of the neoliberal temple, a role that it can now only occupy with the consent of the extreme right, which holds the presidency of its supervisory board »attacked the communist Nicolas Sansu. To justify himself, the RN deputy Matthias Renault explained that he refused any “general increase in taxes”in addition to stigmatizing “crazy taxes” from the left.
After the motion of censure avoided in September, the RN once again saves the day for the Barnier government, in a context where the Macronist and LR elected officials have more than had their fill during the discussions. “We didn't see much of the members of the central bloc on the benches. It was not a medical desert, it was a parliamentary desert,” quips André Chassaigne. Consequence: the left had a free hand to have its amendments adopted.
The expenditure aspect cannot be debated in the Assembly
But this rout of the right allowed the far right to record victories. On October 25, thanks to the weak Macronist mobilization and the abstention of the FI, Jean-Philippe Tanguy passed an amendment reducing France's contribution to the budget of the European Union (EU) by 5 billion euros. . To rectify the situation, the deputies simply repealed the article in question, so that as it stands, the text repeals all funding for community institutions!
Blessed bread for the government, whose supporters seize on this quibble in order to justify their refusal to vote on the recipes. “It would be a de facto Frexit”, deplores Jean-Paul Mattei, former president of the Modem group, in unison with the rest of Macronie and the Republican Right.
The revenue section having ultimately received only 192 votes for (and 362 against), it is therefore the text initially planned by Michel Barnier's government which will be examined in the Senate, where the right reigns supreme. This rejection also has a very serious consequence, since it will prevent MPs from examining the expenditure side of the budget. The opponents of the NFP therefore deprive the entire Assembly of debate on the subject… “The missions which were to be voted on in the Hemicycle will not be discussed”deplores André Chassaigne. In the end, all of France loses.
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