There is “no risk of shutdown » in France in the event of a vote to censure the budget, declared the leader of the National Rally in the Assembly Marine Le Pen, in an article published this Tuesday in Le Figaro. She accuses the government of “misinforming” the French and warning about the “false information” that it is spreading.
Government spokesperson Maud Bregeon said on Saturday in Le Parisien that she feared a financial crisis and “a Greek scenario”, in which civil servants would not be paid in January, if the budget was not voted on.
The noose is tightening on the government which plans to use 49.3 to pass the 2025 budget. And the RN no longer hides its intention to vote on one of the motions of censure which will be tabled by the left if the three texts remain “in place”. 'state' according to Marine Le Pen. With the deputies of the New Popular Front, the majority would be reached and the government of Michel Barnier overthrown.
The term of shutdown refers to the American situation where federal civil servants are not paid until a budget is adopted. “The real risk for democracy is not the shutdown : these are fake news! », Declares Marine Le Pen. Because “there is no risk in our institutions of shutdown (…) contrary to what certain members of the government assert in unison.”
“Even in the event of censorship, taxes would be lifted, civil servants paid, pensions paid, and medical care reimbursed,” explains Marine Le Pen. “To do this, the censored government would only need to vote, as part of current affairs, a special law allowing at least the renewal of the 2024 budget, pending a new government and a formal finance law. »
The President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, also refuted on Tuesday any “announced catastrophe”. “Our texts are well done, our Constitution and our rules are there, so no disaster predicted, no shutdown American style,” she declared on Sud Radio. “I don’t want to worry our compatriots. We have solutions anyway, we are responsible,” she added.
“This way of taking the French for imbeciles is just unbearable and unacceptable”, added the political coordinator of La France insoumise Manuel Bompard on France Inter, “we must stop with these catastrophic speeches”.
