The two motions of censure tabled by the oppositions on the revenue side of the social security financing bill (PLFSS) were rejected and the de facto text adopted, Monday, October 30, by the National Assembly. At the end of the day, the deputies first rejected the text tabled by left-wing parliamentarians (223 deputies voted for, 289 votes were necessary for its adoption), then the motion announced by the National Rally (88 votes for).
The motions, which had little chance of being adopted due to the announcement, by elected Republicans, of their refusal to support them, were announced after the government assumed responsibility for the first part of the PLFSS. . Article 49 paragraph 3, which allows the presidential camp to compensate for its lack of absolute majority on these budgetary texts, should be used again on the expenditure part of the same text, probably on Monday evening.
The use of 49.3 allows the government to integrate the amendments of its choice into the text for which it assumes responsibility. He planned, for example, to add the granting of a “temporary status” of five years to therapeutic cannabis, pending an authorization decision from the European authorities.
The rejection of the motions constitutes adoption of the PLFSS revenues, which should allow, at the same time, the examination of its expenses, deemed insufficient for the health system by all the oppositions. MPs expect to be quickly interrupted by a new recourse to article 49.3 of the Constitution.
This would be the fifteenth for the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, and the third on the 2024 budgets at first reading. The commitment of government responsibility would expose the executive to new motions of censure, the rejection of which would allow the entire PLFSS to continue its path in the Senate.
The expenditure section includes savings measures such as the possibility of suspending an insured person’s daily allowances when a doctor mandated by his employer judges his work stoppage to be unjustified, or the reduction in reimbursement for an insured person refusing medical transport. sharing. The text also provides for consensual measures, such as reimbursement for reusable period protection for women under 26 or free condoms for those under 26.