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Budget: Amélie de Montchalin calls for softening the copy of the Senate
The version of the budget adopted Thursday by the Senate must be softened to become “the compromise budget” desired by the government, said on Sunday the Minister of Public Accounts Amélie de Montchalin, and thus have a chance to escape censorship. Government “said three simple things. One, we must reduce the deficit (…), two, we do not increase taxes for the middle classes and the popular classes, (therefore) you have to save. And third Bousson, we must find a compromise, because this budget (…) will not be that of the right, neither of the left, nor from the center, it will be the budget of the country, “said the Minister on BFMTV .Or, according to her, the budget from the Senate, which includes multiple budget cuts, “fulfills the condition of reducing the deficit, saving money, but obviously not that of being the budget of the compromise”. The text will be examined Thursday in joint joint committee (CMP) of the two assemblies, then the version that will emerge would be subject to the National Assembly in the week of February 3. Insoumise France, anticipating an adoption by article 49.3, announced the filing of a censorship motion. In the left, Ms. de Montchalin said that it was necessary to include in the budget “The 4,000 positions of teaching teachers “That the initial project had to delete, just like” the 500 more people for France work to support the applicants of the RSA “, or” the increase in ONDAM ” – the expenses of care -, up to a” of a ” or two billion for the hospital “.” Support without participation ” – the Minister also insisted on” important things in matters of tax justice “that the government has plans, weighing on the wealthiest. According to it,” the compromise will not prevent, obviously, the PS from being in opposition “, but” we can be in the opposition without censor, without blocking everything “. Then the government estimates at 12 billion euros the cost of Censorship, Ms. de Montchalin quantified the cost of each day which passes without budget on Sunday. The LFI coordinator Manuel Bompard warned the Socialist Party on LCI: if he does not vote the next censorship, he will be placed in “The camp of support without participation in the government of François Bayrou”. Of, mid-January, the PS did not vote for censorship after the general policy speech of François Bayrou, while saying firmly in the opposition. In this “compromise” budget, Mme de Montchalin stressed that there would also be satisfactory measures together for the Republic or the Modem. “We must convince the French and the political parties of the need to have A budget, and that this budget integrates their needs as much as possible, their wishes, “summed up on LCI the Minister of the Economy Éric Lombard.éric Ciotti, president of the UDR, allied with the RN, said on France 3 that “He” voted against the budget “and for censorship, if it contained” billions of euros in tax “, especially for businesses-” robbery “-elected responses on a possible taxation of retirees, The people concerned that can see it immediately “a form of robbery”, Mme de Montchalin nevertheless wished the opening “of a debate, with method and consultation, on the financing of Social Security”. Mr. Lombard noted, on the other hand, that the suggestion to make the French work for free seven hours more a year had received “a fairly fresh reception”, while considering however “that it is necessary to work more” to finance the security. On the side, the first president of the Court of Auditors Pierre Moscovici estimated, at the Grand Jury RTL/M6/Le Figaro/Public Sénat, that with his method “of the compromise”, François Bayrou was “quite faithful to himself”. But he insisted on the need to stick “really” to 5.4% of the GDP of public deficit planned for this year, and no more. So, to really straighten public finances, “the effort he This year will have to be done this year, it will be necessary to do it for five years “, with” above all, a lot of savings, “he warned. The government is planning a budgetary effort of 52 billion euros this year. AB-Ak/JCO
