the income part adopted by the National Assembly, with the votes of the Macronists and the Socialists | EUROtoday

At the tip of a suspenseful vote, the National Assembly adopted, Friday, December 5, the income a part of the Social Security funds, regardless of the divisions within the authorities camp, which permits the continuation of debates earlier than one other essential vote, Tuesday, on the whole textual content.

The deputies authorised it by 166 votes in opposition to 140 and 32 abstentions, with the help of Renaissance, the MoDem, the Socialist Party (PS) and the independents of the group Liberties, Independents, Overseas and Territories (LIOT). The National Rally (RN)-Union of Rights for the Republic (UDR) alliance voted in opposition to, as did La France insoumise (LFI) and Les Ecologistes, whereas Les Républicains and Horizons, members of the federal government camp, largely abstained.

The ballot was marked by low participation for an important vote, since 239 of the 577 deputies didn’t participate. Among them are Marine Le Pen (RN), detained by a funeral, based on her entourage, Manuel Bompard (LFI), François Hollande (PS) and Michel Barnier (LR).

The teams most firmly against the textual content (RN, UDR, LFI) can nonetheless mobilize extra troops, suggesting nice uncertainty in view of the vote on the whole textual content scheduled for Tuesday. The shut result’s due to this fact a warning for the federal government, which has elevated its gestures of openness within the hope of passing the textual content with out resorting to article 49.3 – which permits the adoption of a textual content with no vote on it -, but in addition a type of success, even short-term.

The Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, welcomed the “consultation work” with political forces. Very current within the Hemicycle this week, he recalled that, within the occasion of rejection of the ” recipes “, particularly, parliamentarians wouldn’t have been capable of examine the suspension of the pension reform. The authorities additionally needed sure debates, together with this suspension and the numerous freezing of pensions and social minimums, to be addressed as a precedence. They ought to due to this fact happen from 9:30 p.m. on Friday, and Saturday morning if essential.

“Good direction”

The authorities had, particularly, sought, on Thursday, to reconcile the positions of the PS and the Horizons and LR teams, members of its majority, regarding the delicate challenge of the rise in CSG on capital proposed by the left. The government handed an modification for “secure revenue” And “ensure that the middle classes are not impacted”, however at the price of a considerably decrease yield, round 1.5 billion euros, as a substitute of two.8 within the preliminary model.

“It’s not quite what we asked for, but it’s going in the right direction”estimated the socialist Jérôme Guedj. “We must be able to remove from the part relating to expenses (…) unjust measures ». “It’s a billing project for your seat rescues”for his half, estimated Jean-Philippe Tanguy (RN), against the tax enhance. The Republicans and Horizons, scalded by the concessions made to the PS on the CSG and the pension reform, additionally depend on the deficit to clarify their majority abstentions on the textual content.

Paul Christophe (Horizons) castigated a “artificially reduced social security deficit”particularly as regards to a deliberate switch of funds from the State coffers to these of the “Secu” to present it some respiratory room, with out decreasing the nation’s general deficit.

The authorities hopes to scale back the “Secu” deficit to twenty billion euros, and Amélie de Montchalin, Minister of Public Accounts, estimated on Thursday that the digital forecast counter was round 16 billion euros on the finish of the examination of the ” recipes “whereas understanding that it’ll very in all probability be degraded after the examination of expenditure, the deputies being for instance very against the freezing of pensions and social minimums initially supposed to usher in 3.6 billion euros.

Government spokesperson Maud Bregeon additionally assured Friday that there can be no enhance, both within the funds or by decree, in medical deductibles. The authorities can be contemplating elevating the spending goal for Health Insurance (Ondam) “up to +2.5%”whereas a rise of round 2% was forecast to this point.