However, now she knows the text like the back of her hand and practically no longer needs her card to perform the procedure. The government is expected to initiate a new Bill 49.3 in the National Assembly on Monday to finalize the 2023-2027 budget programming law, but this could be done without Elizabeth Bourne traveling to Ireland.
“As the Prime Minister is on an official trip to Ireland, she will be replaced in the National Assembly if her government is held accountable,” said those close to Elizabeth Bourne. Parliamentary Relations Minister Frank Riester is expected to announce the use of 49.3 in the half cycle. “He has a constitutional right, this is his job,” comments a source in the ministry.
On Monday, MPs will consider for the last time the budget trajectory until 2027, for which the government already used the constitutional weapon 49.3 at the end of September to adopt the text without a vote. This bill is on the agenda of the National Assembly on Monday at 16:00, and a new bill 49.3 is expected, the 17th since Elisabeth Bourne was in Matignon.
Not the first in history
However, on the same day, the Prime Minister will travel to Ireland to commemorate the 225th anniversary of the landing of French troops at Kilcummin on August 22, 1798, in support of the rebellion against the British Kingdom. She is also due to discuss “international issues” and “major European negotiations” with her Irish counterpart Leo Varadkar.
The absence of a prime minister who could hold the government accountable to the Assembly “would not be the first,” a parliamentary source indicates. “Under Michel Rocard (Prime Minister from 1988 to 1991.), several 49.3 were initiated by the Minister for Relations with Parliament or the government’s number two, Lionel Jospin. We need a delegation. »
On December 15, 1989, Lionel Jospin, then Minister of State in charge of National Education, replaced Michel Rocard to activate several 49.3s during the Prime Minister’s trip to Togo. And Jean Poperin, Minister for Parliamentary Relations, succeeded Michel Rocard in April 1991 when he visited New Zealand.
Bill 49.3 may be followed by a new attempt to censor the opposition, the likely rejection of which in a few days will mean the final adoption of this text of the budget program. The government promises in this law to reduce the public deficit from 4.9% of gross domestic product in 2023 to 2.7% in 2027, below the European target of 3%. The center-right Senate, for its part, demanded a return below 3% two years earlier in 2025, and the state budget deficit fell to 1.7% in 2027.
Source: Le Parisien
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