AME, electricity… To save his place, Michel Barnier gives in to pressure from the RN, not enough according to Marine Le Pen

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The Prime Minister is seeking to save his position by avoiding the vote on a motion of censure. And to do this, he chose to respond to certain conditions dictated by Marine Le Pen.

In a long interview given to Figaro this Thursday, November 28, 2024, Michel Barnier responds to two requests from the National Rally.

The first, that of ultimately not increasing taxes on electricity. Understand, the government will return the level of the TICFE to the level before the tariff shield.

How much is this tax?

32 euros per MWh, then? Not really. The different ministries do not give the exact amount, indicating that inflation must be taken into account. Case to be continued, but the government is sitting on three billion euros.

This will allow a reduction in electricity prices of 14%, which will therefore go well beyond the 9% reduction initially planned.

Plane on State Medical Aid

But that's not all, the Prime Minister announces to our colleagues that the executive will reduce the “basket of covered care, as Patrick Stefanini and Claude Evin proposed in a recent report”.

In addition, we will initiate a reform of the AME next year to avoid abuses and misappropriations.

With these pledges, Michel Barnier attempts to avoid censorship, denouncing in passing “the improbable, but possible, alliance of the votes of the extreme left with those of the National Rally, to which would be added the socialists, communists and Greens”.

He believes that France “needs stability” by continuing its strategy of “me or chaos” already started on the plateau of TF1 Tuesday November 26.

Predicting an unvoted budget or a motion of censure, he evokes emergency measures, for “the payment of civil servants and the operation of hospitals”, the increase in interest rates on the markets or even an increase in taxes. on income of three billion euros.

Storm warning, therefore, announces the tenant of Matignon: “Everyone must take their responsibilities before the French and assume them. »

Marine Le Pen not yet satisfied

Marine Le Pen, with the Mondedoes not yet seem convinced: “There are still difficulties. It's Thursday. He has until Monday [2 décembre] », Warns the leader of the far right in the Assembly.

Among his demands which are still unsatisfied in his eyes: the revaluation of the pensions of all retirees on January 1, the cancellation of the reimbursement of medicines initially planned.

She also regrets the way of doing things by Michel Barnier, who did not specifically recognize that it was a “concession to the RN”. The standoff continues.

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