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– Without a Social Security financing bill, or a finance bill, “France is operating in minimum service,” warned Catherine Vautrin.
Before going to the first council of ministers of François Bayrou's government, this morning of Friday January 3, Catherine Vautrin, Minister of Labor, Health, Solidarity and Families, was questioned by our colleagues from RTL. During this interview, she returned to the situation in the country, which according to her, 'can't last'. “We ended the year 2024 without a Social Security financing bill and without a finance bill, which means that in financial matters, France operates in minimum service»warned Catherine Vautrin.
Before continuing: “Everyone knows what a minimum service is, it’s the same thing for the functioning of the country. So it can't last because quite simply we cannot make new commitments whatever the field.” The minister then cited the army budget, that of justice and even mentioned the financing of hospitals. “All these are subjects for which we need a text which authorizes us to go further. There, we only do renewals, so no possibility of progress»she said.
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While according to a Toluna Harris Interactive poll for RTL, published Thursday, three-quarters of French people think that François Bayrou will not stay in office after the summer, Catherine Vautrin is counting on «l’engagement» ministers but also on “the will of the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister” so that the government team remains in place.
“The desire of the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister is to constitute a broader team in the political sense of the term, more open. And the objective is to carry out consultationsto be able to listen to come together around a project”she explained. The Minister of Labor, Health, Solidarity and Families, who was already present in the government of Gabriel Attal and that of Michel Barnier, then declared: “In my field, this great social ministry, [l’objectif] is to meet very quickly with all the political groups of the Assembly, as well as the Senate, to work with them on a very important issue for the daily lives of our fellow citizens, I am obviously thinking of social security financing bill.»
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She who advocates dialogue thus wishes “meet each of the parliamentary groups to determine with them the blocking points on which there is capacity to discuss”.
