François Bayrou used this Monday, for the first time since its appointment and twice article 49.3, in the 2025 budget project and the Social Security budget project. This article provided for in the Constitution allows you to adopt the text without vote, but exposes it to a motion of censure by involving the responsibility of your government. Article 49.3 was used on the Social Security budget project that its predecessor, Michel Barnier, was censored on December 4.
Just after his appointment in Matignon, on December 23, Bayrou had explained in BFMTV his intention to use it if he could not free the majority to vote the 2025 budget. For the other texts, he had expressed his intention “not to use 49.3. I am someone who loves parliamentary democracy. I am in favor of Parliament doing its job and …