Social Security Budget: Barnier commits the government to responsibility through 49.3

Michel Barnier on Monday held the government responsible for the Social Security financing bill through article 49.3 of the Constitution, which allows adoption of the text without a vote but exposes the government to a motion of censure.

“We have now reached a moment of truth which confronts everyone with their responsibilities. It is now up to you, deputies, parliamentarians of the Nation, to decide whether our country adopts responsible financial texts, essential and useful to our fellow citizens. Or if we enter unknown territory”declared the Prime Minister before the National Assembly.

The deputies of La France insoumise then left the hemicycle. Then they announced they were filing a motion of censure against the government. The National Rally group announced on the X network that it “will vote for censorship” of the Barnier government.

All the voices of the left and the RN could lead to the fall of Michel Barnier’s government.

“The French would not forgive us for preferring particular interests to the future of the nation”argued the Prime Minister, ensuring that he had been “at the end of the dialogue” with political groups, including the RN.

This is the first time that Mr. Barnier has activated 49.3.

A few hours earlier, the government had “committed to ensuring that there is no delisting of medicines” in 2025, acceding to a new request from the National Rally, after abandoning the increase in electricity taxation, according to a press release from Michel Barnier sent to AFP on Monday.

After which Marine Le Pen indicated that she “tabled an amendment on the renunciation of the deindexation of pensions” in the text.

“It’s up to the government to accept it or not to accept it”said the leader of the far-right deputies after a meeting of her troops, shortly before the start of the examination of the text by the National Assembly.