Budget 2025: Marine Le Pen, Mathilde Panot, Stéphane Lenormand… Michel Barnier meets the presidents of the different parliamentary groups in Matignon

While the examination of the finance bill (PLF) for 2025, which begins in the Senate this Monday, November 25, is announced favorable to the executive, the fate of the PLF remains in the hands of the deputies. These already pose the threat of censorship over the government, in the event of 49.3 for the New Popular Front, and “if the purchasing power of the French is amputated” for the RN, indicated Marine Le Pen.

Increasingly under pressure, Prime Minister Michel Barnier invited the presidents of the different parliamentary groups to Matignon this week to discuss the budget.

In particular, this Monday at 8:30 a.m., he will receive Marine Le Pen, the president of the National Rally group at the National Assembly and Jean-Philippe Tanguy, deputy president of the RN group.

At the end of the morning, he will speak with Stéphane Lenormand, president of the LIOT group, before meeting in the afternoon, Eric Ciotti, president of the UDR group, as well as Mathilde Panot of La France insoumise (LFI).

“Until today, Michel Barnier has created the conditions for censorship,” said RN vice-president Sébastien Chenu on LCI on Sunday. “He meets Marine Le Pen, perhaps he will make a certain number of revelations, declarations, different directions.”

The Prime Minister is also due to meet at 10 a.m. with President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysée. Thursday, during the Congress of Mayors of France, Michel Barnier admitted not knowing “how much time I have ahead of me” in the face of a “possible coalition of opposites, if I may say so, in the National Assembly”. “I don’t know if it will happen, I’m ready for it,” he assured.