Hardly voted by the deputies, the draft budget for 2021 and its stimulus plan of 100 billion arrives this Thursday, November 19 for three weeks in the Senate, where the right-wing majority intends to examine it with "
responsibility
".
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"
The least we can say is that parliamentarians, like the French, today have a very questioning, sometimes circumspect, in other cases worried look, on this waltz of billions,
" said to the press the general rapporteur of the Budget Jean-François Husson (LR).
"
We want to show a spirit of responsibility in these particular circumstances, but this is not a blank check,
" he warned.
The European Commission was also worried on Wednesday about the impact of the stimulus measures on public finances, notably aimed at lowering production taxes in France.
Sign of the climate of uncertainty which prevails in the examination of the finance bill (PLF), on the evening of the vote in the National Assembly on Tuesday, the government revised downwards its growth forecast for 2021. Due from "
maintaining health rules in the coming months
", the expected rebound in GDP is finally 6%, against 8% previously forecast.
The recovery plan, "
one of the major axes
" of the draft budget according to the president of the PS Finance Committee Claude Raynal is considered "
too late
" by the senators.
The 100 billion run from 2020 to 2022, around three pillars: “
ecology
”, “
competitiveness
”, “
territorial cohesion
”.
"
The rebound of the epidemic will necessarily lead to strengthening support measures
", according to the rapporteur.
In particular, it will propose to expand from 2021 the current system of solidarity funds for companies.
On the left, Rémi Féraud (PS) judges that the draft budget "
is not designed for new periods of restriction of activity in 2021
" which cannot today be excluded.
Husson also accuses the government of "
concentrating in its hands the elements of the recovery plan
".
"
We have an army of more than 500,000 (local elected officials), which is ready to face and the government chooses a vertical position
".
The Senate will vote on November 25 on the “
revenue
” component of the PLF, then on December 8 on the entire text, which will then go back to the National Assembly.
