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It is a "stillborn budget", there was a "lack of anticipation": with suspensions of the meeting and reminders of the rules, the opposition deputies criticized the announcements of Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday evening , in full examination of the budget in the Assembly.

With the curfew, the economic "assumptions" of the 2021 budget "are no longer tenable", denounced the deputy LR Véronique Louwagie.

The Minister of Public Accounts Olivier Dussopt admitted that “the question of financing the measures announced this evening and which will be specified tomorrow” by the Prime Minister will certainly arise.

He raised the possibility of amending the 2021 budget during the parliamentary shuttle.

Regarding 2020, he also cited the last amending finance law (PLFR4) at the end of the year.

Four weeks or more

The curfew announced in Ile-de-France and eight metropolises "will affect restaurants and theaters economically", if "we are there, it is because there was a lack of anticipation", also ruled the boss of the socialist group Valérie Rabault.

"I am not sure that the contamination occurs more at night than in schools, businesses or transport", why recourse to teleworking is not "requested this evening" in order "to avoid concentrations, especially in transport, ”she said, before a first recess.

The communist Stéphane Peu demanded a second just after, because the announcements of the President of the Republic "directly challenge the 2021 finance law". "Apparently, our Assembly will be convened to possibly extend this curfew beyond four weeks. .

At the very least, it requires some information, ”he added.

A curfew without debate in the Assembly deemed "shocking" by LFI

At LFI, Alexis Corbière found "shocking" that a curfew, "never seen in 60 years of politics in France, does not at least go through a debate" in the National Assembly.

The general rapporteur for the budget Laurent Saint-Martin (LREM) called for “responsibility” and to continue examining the 2021 finance bill.

I find it shocking that it is on TV that parliamentarians learn that a #couvrefeux has been decreed, without even having been concerted before!

This clearly shows how little the government and #LREM care about national representation!

#DirectAN #Macron pic.twitter.com/K6djIvCQLr

- Alexis Corbière (@alexiscorbiere) October 14, 2020

"Let us continue our discussions calmly to endow our State with a 2021 budget", added Olivier Becht, head of the Agir Ensemble group, an ally of the majority.

Contact and forced into isolation at home, the chairman of the Assembly's finance committee, MP LR Eric Woerth, described the curfew on Twitter as "half-confinement, I hope effective" and "Which requires a massive increase in business support".

“The impact on 2021 will be significant and the budget stillborn,” he concluded.

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