An invitation to resign. If Michel Barnier's government was overthrown on the budget, Emmanuel Macron “could take responsibility”said this Sunday, November 24, the deputy and spokesperson for the National Rally (RN) Philippe Ballard on Franceinfo.
“As the text currently stands, yes”the RN deputies would censure the Barnier government, replied the deputy for Oise. “There is absolutely nothing in the text that meets our expectations. We will look at what is in the final text but for the moment it is off to a bad start”he indicated.
“We are not responsible for the situation”
Is the RN responsible for bringing down the government and the budget at the end of the year, at the risk pointed out by certain actors of a financial crisis? “We are not responsible for the financial situation of the country, and we are not responsible for the situation, for the political choices”replied Philippe Ballard. “There is another solution. Emmanuel Macron could perhaps also take his responsibilities”he added. Does that mean resigning? “We don’t have to call on him to resign. He could take responsibility. It could be one of the exit doors”suggested the RN spokesperson.
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A hypothesis that the Head of State had completely excluded in his “letter to the French” published Monday June 24, in the regional daily press. Emmanuel Macron then assured that he would stay at the Élysée “until May 2027”whatever the result of the legislative elections of June 30 and July 7.“France pays what? The “republican front”. This Mélenchon-Macron alliance on which the LRs have been grafted. There was no program. If: block the National Rally. As a result, the country is ungovernable. There are three blocks »insisted the member for Oise.
The Barnier government under pressure
While a 49.3 (adoption of a text without a vote, barring a motion of censure leading to the fall of the government) seems likely on the budgetary texts, Michel Barnier will receive Marine Le Pen on Monday, November 25 at Matignon, as well as the other presidents of parliamentary groups this week.
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Without a majority in the Assembly, where the left has significantly modified its draft budget now in the hands of the Senate, the Prime Minister faces growing threats of censorship from the far-right party, including the addition of votes to a motion of censure by the New Popular Front could lead to the fall of the government.
Michel Barnier must also deal with the elements of his “common base”including the Macronist EPR group of Gabriel Attal, headwinds against “an increase in labor costs”.
