In the Senate, new stability of energy favorable to the Barnier authorities | EUROtoday

After a laborious examination within the National Assembly, the place the federal government’s help, already within the minority, was discreet, the budgetary texts arrived within the Senate of their unique model. Indeed, the Social Security financing invoice (PLFSS) couldn’t be voted on within the National Assembly inside the constitutional deadlines, and the income a part of the finance invoice (PLF) was rejected. by the deputies, Tuesday November 12.

This scenario doesn’t displease the federal government of Michel Barnier, who has not but had to make use of of article 49.3 of the Constitution – permitting a textual content to be adopted with no vote – and may now depend on a chamber that’s far more favorable to it. Due to the federal government alliance between the best, which reigns over the Luxembourg Palace, and the Macronists, 66% of senators belong, on paper, to teams supporting the federal government.

Since 2017, the governments appointed by Emmanuel Macron may solely depend on just a few dozen senators. Now, with the 130 senators from the Les Républicains (LR) get together, the 60 from the centrist Union group – which notably brings collectively elected officers from the MoDem and the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI) –, the 20 from the Macronist group of the Rassemblement des Democrats, Progressives and Independents (RDPI) and the 19 from the Les Indépendants-République et Territories group (with a Horizons majority), these are 229 senators out of 348 who’re favorable to the federal government.

“They can’t find their position”

A improvement which resulted, because of the affect of the President of the Senate, Gérard Larcher (LR), within the large and much unprecedented arrival of 10 senators within the authorities. Six come from the LR group, together with its emblematic president for ten years, Bruno Retailleau, on the Ministry of the Interior. This return to obligations put an finish to 13 lengthy years of presidency scarcity for the senatorial proper. If, with its 130 seats, the LR group remains to be the primary within the Senate, by far, it has by no means occupied so few seats for the reason that merger of the best into the UMP (the ancestor of LR), in 2002.

Indeed, the selection of an opposition that some describe as radical, even visceral, since Emmanuel Macron got here to energy in 2017, has scared away a couple of. With the creation of the Les Indépendants-République et Territories group, favorable to Macronist governments. And even when, since 2022 and the shortage of a majority within the Assembly, the presidential and LR camps within the Senate have been in a position to regain their language, their return to energy is seen as revenge.

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