The National Assembly examines the 2021 draft budget

The national assembly began on Monday the final stretch of the examination of the draft budget 2021, marked by the mobilization of more than 20 billion euros in emergency aid for the sectors most affected by the Covid-19 crisis.

Already validated by the Senate, the budget, examined in second reading, must be definitively adopted at the end of the week. The government announced last Friday additional resources for the affected sectors.

Among the more than 20 billion announced, 11.4 billion euros must be devoted to short-time work against 6.5 billion initially planned. And 7 billion euros, including 5 billion in new loans, abound in the solidarity fund for companies still closed or in slow motion at the start of 2021.

From the Assembly gallery, Bruno the Mayor posted the “Full support” from government to all “Restaurateurs of France”, while a demonstration of the profession was held not far from the Palais Bourbon.

“There is not a minute to lose to initiate the economic recovery”, also underlined the Minister of the Economy, insisting on the energy renovation program of public buildings and the objective “To create 20,000 jobs in two years” in this sector.

Before the meeting, the Socialist group reiterated its grievances against the budget during a press point. Its leader Valérie Rabault considers that the young and the most precarious are the “Great forgotten” recovery plan and criticizes the government for the lack of “Contribution of the wealthy” in the face of the crisis, such as the reinstatement of the solidarity tax on wealth.

“The government refuses the very beginning of a debate on this issue, it is a major political error”, she denounced. At LFI, Eric Coquerel fears a « cyclone social ».

About “More modest”, “I will not let it be said that this majority would do everything for businesses”, and “Nothing for the employees” and “The most fragile”, it is “Simply a lie”, replied Bruno Le Maire in the hemicycle.

The “Partial unemployment benefit scheme” East “The most generous in Europe”, he said, before spelling out the aid measures put in place to deal with the crisis.

On the right, the chairman of the finance committee Éric Woerth (LR) called for «Stabilize let this» and pleaded for “Structural reforms”, car “Someone will pay one day”.

Faced with the crisis, the special budget rapporteur, Laurent Saint-Martin said he assumed “The debt pump”.

Old man of budget debates, Charles de Courson (Liberties and Territories) ironically attributed a “Grand cross of the public debt”, in chocolate, to the Minister of Public Accounts, Olivier Dussopt, before drawing up an indictment of the future finance law: “No structural economy”, social and ecological aspect judged ” insufficient “.

In the hemicycle, the government and the budget rapporteur have worked to unravel the additions of the Senate by returning the text to its version adopted at first reading in the National Assembly.

The discussion was animated, however, when left and right opposed, without success, the government and rapporteur wishing to remove a measure adopted by the Senate to tax the digital giants according to their number of users.

Same scenario when Laurent Saint-Martin and Olivier Dussopt wishing to plan the duration and perimeter of a tax credit for the benefit of live entertainment inflated by the High Assembly, denounced the bad trials of the oppositions.

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