2024-09-26 15:27:54
The letter is courteous in form, murderous in substance. The general rapporteur of the Budget at the National Assembly, Charles de Courson, took up his pen to respond to the Macronist deputies of the Finance Committee. Twelve of them had challenged him earlier in the week to demand clarification from him on his political position: if he did not support the government, as is the tradition for holders of this strategic position , the presidential camp invited the new rapporteur to resign.
An old hand in the Hemicycle, MP LIOT did not give in to this pressure. In a few sentences, he brushes aside the criticisms of his detractors. Charles de Courson considers his political positioning “clear”. As it is stated in black and white in the declaration of the LIOT parliamentary group (Freedoms, Independents, Overseas and Territories) to which he belongs, the elected official from Marne claims his membership in a “republican opposition, free, independent and responsible”.
And it doesn’t matter that a LIOT elected official, Valérie Létard, chose individually to accept a ministerial role in the Barnier government.
Minority majority
In summary, Charles de Courson does not consider himself in any way obliged to support the government (he demonstrated this as recently as Wednesday, during the first hearing of the Ministers of the Economy and the Budget by the Commission of Finances of the Assembly). Formally, he recalls that the Assembly’s regulations in no way provide for the position of rapporteur to go to a member of the majority.
Only the presidency of the Finance Committee (currently held by LFI deputy Eric Coquerel) is institutionally devolved to an opposition elected official.
And, if the tradition does exist to reserve the position of rapporteur for an elected representative of the majority, Charles de Courson cruelly points out to his Macronist colleagues that the “original situation” born from the dissolution and the anticipated legislative elections of last June makes the term improper. By adding the number of deputies from groups officially supporting the government, “we obtain the figure of 212,” underlines Charles de Courson. However, the majority being 289 votes, I am surprised that you consider yourself to be in the majority when you are in the minority.”
After this muscular epistolary exchange, the debates promise to be tense for the examination of the budget, the text of which is expected “in the week of October 9”, promised the government.
📝Find my response to the finance commissioners belonging to the parliamentary group “Together for the Republic” following the letter they sent to me, evoking my political position as well as my election as General Rapporteur📝⬇️ pic.twitter.com/kUphcEvzlB
— Charles de Courson (@C_deCourson) September 25, 2024
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