The government wants to rebuild Mayotte on new foundations. At the end of the Council of Ministers on Wednesday January 8, the Minister of Overseas, Manuel Valls promised not to “let Mayotte become a shanty island again”, in reference to the numerous unsanitary homes which were swept away by Cyclone Chido at the beginning of December. During the Council of Ministers, an emergency bill was presented in order to rebuild the archipelago “as soon as possible”. Follow our live stream.
Consultations on the budget continue in Bercy. The Minister of the Economy, Eric Lombard, is due to receive several executives from the French Communist Party on Wednesday, including national secretary Fabien Roussel. André Chassaigne and Cécile Cukierman, group presidents in the Assembly and the Senate, have also confirmed their presence, from 2 p.m. The national secretary of Ecologists, Marine Tondelier, and the group leaders Cyrielle Chatelain and Guillaume Gontard will then be welcomed at the end of the afternoon.
Discussions to be completed before January 14. All these exchanges should allow the government to refine its draft budget in view of the Prime Minister's general policy declaration to Parliament, scheduled for January 14. François Bayrou should then unveil the main points of the finance bill and the Social Security financing bill.
François Bayrou is flexible on pensions, according to Marylise Léon. At the number one of the CFDT, received late Tuesday afternoon, the Prime Minister said he had not “no taboo” on all matters related to pensions, “including legal age”said the union leader on Wednesday on LCI. For the first union, this subject “must be reopened with everything possible and imaginable in terms of financing”. Received before her, the president of Medef Patrick Martin said he wanted to broaden the discussion on pensions to “financing social protection” by the “capitalisation” or the “taxation”.
