“difficult to do otherwise”, regrets Michel Barnier

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“Of course we will have a budget for 2025,” promises Michel Barnier, this Thursday, November 14, 2024 in an interview given to West France. To get there, it will “probably” be necessary to go through a 49.3 recognizes (regrets?) the Prime Minister.

Despite the use of this legislative tool, Michel Barnier remains sure of his method: “You will observe that we have chosen to let the debate take place there”, insists the tenant of Matignon. A slight attack on the Borne government which sometimes did not take the trouble to follow through on discussions.

Not a “distorted” budget

The budgetary debates are therefore moving towards a 49.3. No surprise for the Savoyard. Not a surprise after the broad rejection of the Palais Bourbon on the revenue part of the finance bill.

When I see what happened in the Assembly, it seems difficult to do otherwise at the end of the discussion.

He regrets that the budget was “distorted” in the Assembly and promises “a serious and responsible budget”.

Anxious to imbue politics with its method, the government will “take into account the ideas of all the groups, in particular the four of the common base which accompany me: Ensemble pour la République, the MoDem, Horizons and the Republican Right”.

The Prime Minister, who refuses the notion of cohabitation with Emmanuel Macron, does not rule out taking up elements of the New Popular Front or the National Rally either, without specifying.

“Budget emergency”

Furthermore, Michel Barnier insists on the constraints which weighed on constructing the budget, “in two weeks, with the imperative of reducing the deficit by 60 billion”.

Never in sixty years has a government had such constraints. This finance bill can be improved. I have no taboos.

He seems in a hurry to get out of “this phase of budgetary emergency” to turn the page, “to raise the horizon for the French by offering them concrete projects”. Always “calm and respect everywhere”.

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