The government is engaging in the budgetary battle in an unprecedented economic and political context

On October 21, 1989, Michel Rocard arrived at the National Assembly at 6:45 a.m., announcing to a few deputies exhausted by hours of conflicting debates that he was engaging his government’s responsibility for the finance law for 1990. More than thirty years later, is Elisabeth Borne destined to follow the same path as her distant predecessor?

With the presentation this Monday of its finance bill (PLF) for 2023, its government has in any case embarked on a political battle like the V^e Republic knew little about it: the forceful adoption of a budget by recourse to article 49.3 of the Constitution thus intervened only five times – and above all during the second seven-year term of François Mitterrand, when his socialist governments enjoyed only a relative majority. “There is still a way” to avoid such an outcome, assured Bruno Le Maire, the Minister of the Economy, on Monday. “My method is dialogue, the search for compromise”, added Elisabeth Borne on BFMTV and RMC.