Elizabeth Bourne gets a Social Security budget pass thanks to another 49.3

Is this the final sign of trivialization of the executive’s preferred 49.3? In the absence of Health Minister François Browne, who was traveling to Mayotte, and his solidarity counterpart Jean-Christophe Combe, Prime Minister Elizabeth Bourne took charge of her government on Wednesday, November 30. With the final reading of the Social Security Financing Bill (PLFSS) in the National Assembly.

This is the seventh time in two months and the fifth time on the PLFSS, when the Matignon tenant uses this article of the constitution, which allows the adoption of the text without a vote, in an unlimited way on the budget texts. A final 49.3 must pass social security budget, while three others are expected on the finance bill in December.

“At the end of the discussion of the text and a few days after the end of the constitutional period [prévu samedi 3 décembre], I regret again, as I have already done, that the positions remained fixed. And that, despite the achievements, each opposition group has reaffirmed its willingness to oppose the bill, whatever it contains.”– argued Elizabeth Born from the tribune of Hemicycle, under the cheers of the opposition.

“You chose the easy way”

During the final reading of the PLFSS, the benches on the left, as well as the right and far right, condemned it “The process that completely destroyed the debate”After the assembly was able to consider only a few amendments to the text in the second reading. “The 49.3 is a revolver aimed at the nation and the assembly. You chose the easy way »From the start of the session, the “rebel” Seine-Saint-Denis MP Raquel Garrido was attacked, defending a motion of rejection before the text began, which failed.

As part of the presidential coalition, 49.3 did not start supporting the social security budget, which is endowed with 600 billion euros. “ambitious and responsible”. “I am sure that our fellow citizens will remember from these last weeks our decisive measures and not the adventure of a sad political spectacle.”said Stephanie Rist (Renaissance, Loire), general rapporteur of the social security budget.

“Thank you for this constructive debate, this abundance, this monochrome, this gradation 49.3, which gives so much flavor to our debate. (…) Rarely has there been so little debate about health and social care since the introduction of social care funding laws., In return, Bouches-du-Rhône’s Communist MP Pierre Daréville scoffed. In a less vociferous tone, the Senate, which rejected the text, also condemned the repeated use of 49.3 the day before. “You’ve erased all our work, you don’t want to compromise and legally use 49.3, but your use is bad, brutal and we reject it”Socialist Senator Bernard Joumier of Paris emphasized to the cheers of his colleagues.