Marine Le Pen continues to make her demands to give Michel Barnier a chance to stay in Matignon. The leader of the National Rally thus called on the Prime Minister on Saturday for final concessions to avoid censorship which she considers “not inevitable”.
However, is the government ready for new actions? Alerting “on the bill of censorship” in an interview with Parisianthe Minister of Public Accounts Laurent Saint-Martin considered that the text was the result of a compromise between senators and deputies. “Censoring this text would amount to censoring a democratic agreement.”
A high-risk “49.3”
Because the noose will seriously tighten on Michel Barnier from Monday. The Social Security financing bill (PLFSS) on which the National Assembly will have to vote is full of irritants for the opposition (reductions in employer contributions, partial de-indexation of pensions, de-reimbursement of medicines, etc.).
Without a majority, the Prime Minister could choose to activate article “49.3” of the Constitution, which allows the approval of a text without a vote. But he would be exposed to the first motion of censure of the fall which could be examined on Wednesday. If the left and the National Rally unite their voices, the government will fall. This would be the first time since the fall of Georges Pompidou's government in 1962.
“Censorship is not inevitable. It is enough for Mr. Barnier to agree to negotiate,” asserts Marine Le Pen in an interview with La Tribune Sundayclearly annoyed that the RN, the first group in the National Assembly, was not approached sooner to “participate in the development of a budget”.
The RN assures that it does not want to “worsen the deficit”
Received for the first time in Matignon last Monday, the head of the RN deputies said she remained “constructive”, but warned the Prime Minister that if he refused to negotiate with the RN, it would be he who would then take “the decision to trigger the censorship.” She claims to have “taken barely 10% of the measures” from the counter-budget presented by the RN “to make them red lines, namely eliminations of taxes or duties with, in return, new revenue, since we do not Obviously we don’t want to make the deficit worse.”
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Even if the Social Security budget was the subject of an agreement between deputies and senators in the joint committee on Wednesday, the government can still modify its text until the last moment to meet the demands of the oppositions.
