“Super-dividends”: a MoDem MP calls on the majority to “ask the right questions”

Europe 1 with AFP 7:20 p.m., October 24, 2022

"We must have the courage to ask ourselves the right questions", Jean-Paul Mattei (MoDem) declared Monday in the Assembly facing Élisabeth Borne, calling for "listening" and regretting that his amendment on "super- dividends" has been left out of the draft budget.

"The France of 2022 is not that of 2017", pleaded the deputy of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, leader of the group which makes up the relative majority of the presidential camp (with Renaissance and Horizons), calling to "have the courage to ask the right questions."

He was speaking during the discussion of the motions of censure tabled by the deputies of Nupes and the National Rally in response to 49.3 invoked by the executive to pass its state budget without a vote.

"probably, there is no listening"

During the review, Jean-Paul Mattei had succeeded in having an amendment passed, against the government's opinion, increasing the taxation of "super-dividends" from large companies, which would have increased from 30% to 35%.

The government had excluded it from its final copy submitted to the procedure of 49.3.

“I regret that this amendment, which was voted on by a large majority, did not continue on its way”, repeated the MP MoDem before the Prime Minister and part of his government.

"We consider, we, in the Democratic group, that we must know how to listen to ourselves and sometimes doubt, because undoubtedly, there is no listening", he launched to the whole Assembly, rejecting without surprise the idea of ​​voting motions of censure against the government.