Threatened with censorship in the National Assembly, Michel Barnier will grant an interview this Tuesday evening to TF1 and France 2, the day after activation of 49.3 to pass the Social Security budget. The Prime Minister will answer questions from Anne-Sophie Lapix and Gilles Bouleau. Extremely weakened, his government risks falling within the weekwhen the deputies will vote or not on censure. The conference of presidents of the National Assembly, which is held this Tuesday morning, must decide on the date of the vote, it will probably be Wednesday or Thursday.
While waiting for the almost inevitable decision, Michel Barnier will attend the question session to the government this Tuesday scheduled for the afternoon at the National Assembly. The atmosphere looks tense as the left and the National Rally have announced that they will vote for censorship. “The fall of Barnier is recorded“, proclaimed the leader of the rebellious deputies Mathilde Panot. Appointed on September 5, he will have lasted three months thanks to the “support without participation of the RN” et, “what will bring him down is precisely that the RN will have stopped supporting him“, underlined PS deputy Arthur Delaporte.
“No inevitability” for the Minister of the Economy
Guest of France 2 this Tuesday morning, Antoine ArmandMinister of the Economy and Finance indicates that there is “no inevitability, no resignation to be had”, believing that he “this is an individual decision“. “MPs have the choice not to plunge the country into uncertainty and instability“, he explained. According to the minister, the government to which he belongs is “got to the end of the dialogue“. “We have done everything possible so that the political forces in Parliament can support or not censor this budget“, he continued.
The actions announced by Michel Barnier to meet the demands of the RN – particularly on the reimbursement of medicines – will not, however, have been enough: “We will vote for censorship“, said Marine Le Pen on Monday, for whom Michel Barnier did not “unwilling to respond to the demand of 11 million voters” of its formation. The adoption by the National Assembly of such a motion would be a first since the overthrow of the government of Georges Pompidou in 1962. The Barnier government would then become the shortest in the history of the Fifth Republic.
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