To understand the use of 49.3, it is necessary, according to Olivier Véran, to look at the attitude of the oppositions. These “privileged partisan interests” in the discussion of the 2023 budget, leading to an impasse, accuses the government spokesperson in an interview with Sunday newspaper.
“With the Bercy dialogues, conducted with the oppositions, with longer debates in committee and in public session, with around a hundred amendments from the majority and the oppositions retained for the finance bill, we have done our part. way,” he assures us, as the government activated article 49.3 to pass the revenue part of the state budget without a vote. “By explaining that they would not vote for the budget of France even if their amendments were adopted, the oppositions swept away the outstretched hand, and favored partisan interests over the general interest”.
The minister recalls in passing that Emmanuel Macron “has asked his government and the majority to do everything to find compromises with the opposition while ensuring that the country is never blocked. The RN and the Nupes, each on their side, filed motions of censure of the government in response to 49.3. They will be put to the vote on Monday afternoon, with very little chance of success.