At the Palais-Bourbon, the great parliamentary battle for the 2023 budget starts in the hemicycle on Monday.

And the budgetary marathon, which begins until December, promises to be tumultuous as the government threatens to draw 49.3.

The deputies will therefore consider a text that the executive is already preparing to pass without a vote, for lack of an absolute majority for the macronists.

The session should open at 4 p.m. with the intervention of the ministers and the various political groups.

Then the Assembly will begin, probably on Tuesday, to tackle the more than 3,000 amendments tabled on this first part of the finance bill (PLF), which includes in particular a "tariff shield" of 45 billion euros against the explosion of energy prices.

Bercy does not convince the opposition

MEPs must first consider the 2023-2027 budget trajectory.

Less important than the PLF, this programming bill was rejected last week in committee to the chagrin of the government, which fears consequences for the payments of European funds to France.

Too expensive for the right, "austerity" for the left, "subject" to Brussels according to the RN: the oppositions have ruled out supporting the 2023 budget. And the "Bercy dialogues", organized in September by the government with deputies from all sides have changed nothing.


Recourse to Article 49.3 of the Constitution therefore seems inevitable.

In the hands of the executive, this tool makes it possible to pass a text without a vote, unless a motion of censure is adopted.

“Our responsibility will be to assume to engage 49.3 sufficiently early if the oppositions block the debate morning, noon and evening”, moreover hammered Sunday the leader of the Renaissance deputies Aurore Bergé.

Based on optimistic economic assumptions, this finance bill plays a balancing act between the desire to "protect" the French against soaring energy prices and not to increase the debt.

The course set is to contain the public deficit to 5% of GDP, despite the "tariff shield", an increase in teachers or the creation of more than 10,000 civil servant posts, including 3,000 police and gendarmes.

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