The Senate dominated by the right-wing opposition launches Thursday, November 18, after the National Assembly, in the examination at first reading of the last draft budget of the five-year Macron, an exercise planned over three weeks, but which could turn this year short.
The vote on the whole of the text is in principle scheduled for December 7, but the debates are likely to be cut short, the senatorial right wishing to mark its opposition to a budget which
"clearly reflects an executive already in campaign"
at five months of the presidential election, according to the general rapporteur Jean-François Husson (LR).
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Between the presentation of the draft budget and the end of its first reading examination in the National Assembly on Tuesday, 11.8 billion in additional spending was added, to bring the deficit forecast to 5% of GDP in 2022, with a negative balance of 155 billion euros. The deputies notably voted
"the most expensive amendment of the Fifth Republic"
, a promise of 34 billion euros of investments to decline in several years the France 2030 investment plan announced by Emmanuel Macron to
"reindustrialize"
the countries and
“decarbonize”
the economy. In 2022, the first tranche of this plan represents 3.5 billion euros.
Other additions, some 550 million for the
"youth engagement contract"
presented by the President of the Republic on November 2, the plan for Marseille, including 30 million in subsidies and 100 million in advances repayable from 2022 for transport, or more measures for the harkis, with a first tranche of 50 million euros from 2022. The Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire defends
“a PLF of recovery and investment”
.
He praises the new growth, 6.25% expected in 2021 and 4% in 2022, and the drop in unemployment.
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According to the scenario which emerges, but which is not formally acted by the right-wing majority, the Senate would proceed to the examination of the first part of the finance bill (PLF), the revenue part, but would not validate the
“balance”
article
of
the public accounts, a condition for initiating the discussion on the expenditure part. And therefore end of clap next Tuesday in the Senate and return to the National Assembly. In 2016, the Upper Assembly, already held by the right, had opted for an outset rejection of the last budget of François Hollande's five-year term.
"We will proceed to the examination of the first part, the receipts, and it is likely that we will not go much further,"
General rapporteur Jean-François Husson (LR) told AFP.
"We can see that compared to the initial finance bill (PLF) tabled by the government, there was an avalanche of new announcements behind"
, he laments, criticizing
"the electoral clientelism"
of the majority. government.
"There is a good chance that the second part will not be examined,"
confirmed the boss of centrist senators Hervé Marseille.
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"I do not think that the Senate will vote the first part of this budget built in improvisation"
, declared the president LR of the upper house Gérard Larcher in
Figaro
, criticizing
"the spending frenzy of the executive"
and a
"budget campaign ”
,
“ dangerous for the future of the country ”
.
"We are also very unhappy with the government's lack of respect for Parliament, but this is no reason to withdraw from the game,"
said Rémi Féraud, leader of the PS senators on the text.
"We are going to play our role in proposing to put social justice"
in the draft budget, he added.
"The Senate is sovereign"
, reacted for his part the Minister in charge of Public Accounts Olivier Dussopt, questioned by AFP.
"As far as I am concerned, I wish to go to the end of the examination of this text (...).
I am even impatient to hear the proposals of senators.
But perhaps this is the difficulty, to have proposals which allow the senatorial majority to approach the second part other than in division ”
.
In the meantime, work continued in the committees on the budgets of the various
"missions"
distributing expenditure.
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