History repeats itself for the 22nd time. The National Assembly rejected a motion of censure from LFI on Monday evening, thus adopting the 2024 draft state budget in a new reading. The motion received only 110 votes out of the 289 needed to bring down the government. She responded to Élisabeth Borne’s 22nd appeal to the constitutional weapon of 49.3 to pass a text without a vote. And a new 49.3 from the Prime Minister is expected on Tuesday evening with a view to the final adoption of this budget before the weekend.
In the meantime, LFI speaker François Piquemal bombarded the “twenty-two (49.3) passed in less than two years”. “Twenty-two (…) If you ever get bored after the reshuffle, you can always organize a football match with your 49.3”, eleven against eleven, he told the Prime Minister. L’Insoumis also castigated the immigration bill, in the midst of negotiations in the Assembly between deputies and senators on this text. He accused the presidential camp of “embracing the ideas of the extreme right”. “Elizabeth limited herself,” he said.
“Ecological transition”
Élisabeth Borne criticized “Nupes for replacing ideas with invectives” and “the extreme left for regularly mixing its voices with those of the extreme right”. Under the protests, the Prime Minister assured to defend a “budget which considerably increases the resources of our school” and in favor of “the ecological transition”.
Like the left, LR criticized an amendment by the majority reintroducing into the budget advantageous tax measures to attract in particular Fifa, the body of world football, to France, a proposal supported by the government, and which the Senate had wished to delete.
“Streaming tax”
On a completely different subject, the government mistakenly left behind a Senate measure to more drastically reduce the tax loophole enjoyed by furnished tourist rentals like Airbnb.
It is a “material error”, recognized a government source, which ensures that the measure will not apply in 2024, despite the voices on the left and in the majority who demand it.
This new reading also takes up a “streaming tax” introduced in the Senate so that online music platforms contribute to the financing of the National Music Center.