the National Assembly rejects a brand new textual content from Michel Barnier | EUROtoday

By agreeing to grow to be Prime Minister at first of September, Michel Barnier knew that the scenario of the general public accounts was “extremely serious” and that the discussions on the funds for 2025 promised to be painful. He couldn’t think about that the 2024 funds, already voted on a very long time in the past and three-quarters executed, would additionally give rise to bitter battles, exposing the fragility of the coalition which helps it and the multiplicity of its opponents. However, that is what the day of November 19 confirmed, in two episodes throughout which the federal government discovered itself below the crossfire of the left, the acute proper and a few of its theoretical helps.

The most spectacular: the rejection by the National Assembly of the top of administration invoice, a textual content deemed important by the federal government to finish the 12 months with out monetary drama. Out of 199 voters on the finish of the night, solely 53 supported the federal government textual content, whereas 146 voted in opposition to. A severe setback, whereas the minority authorities of Elisabeth Borne had succeeded in having the deputies undertake the equal textual content by the top of 2023.

The ball is now within the courtroom of the Senate, earlier than, maybe, recourse to article 49.3 of the structure, which permits adoption and not using a vote however opens the door to a movement of censure, subsequently to a fall within the government. “For this government on borrowed time, the path is becoming more and more impassable,” instantly rejoiced the deputy (La France Insoumise) Eric Coquerel, president of the finance committee.

Eminently political textual content

On paper, this textual content was not a bomb, a priori. It was merely imagined to make it doable to make some late financial savings for the 2024 monetary 12 months and to open last-minute appropriations deemed mandatory. Michel Barnier having chosen to not undergo Parliament an actual amending finance legislation, which might have approved him to take emergency tax measures, the federal government was banking on this extra innocuous parliamentary automobile to present a remaining blow to the funds for 2024 In this context, it was deliberate to definitively cancel 5.6 billion euros of credit already voted. This primarily involved numerous funds briefly frozen throughout the summer season by Gabriel Attal.

At the identical time, new credit of 4.2 billion euros have been programmed to cowl distinctive further prices. In specific these, huge, linked to the safety of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (1.6 billion euros) in addition to the disaster in New Caledonia (1.1 billion euros). It was additionally a query of paying the 200 million euros that the group of the legislative elections can have value the State after the dissolution determined by Emmanuel Macron.

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