Without a budget for 2025, there will be “no catastrophe predicted”, says Yaël Braun-Pivet, nor “no risk of shutdown”, assures Marine Le Pen

There will be no “disaster predicted” if France fails to adopt a budget for 2025 due to government censorship, in turn defended the President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, Tuesday November 26, on Sud Radio. “I hear everything and often anything. (…) Our texts are well done, our Constitution and our rules are there, so no disaster predicted, no American-style shutdown. (…) There is no worst-case scenario.”assured M^me Brown Pivet.

“The government can present to Parliament what is called a special law to collect taxes from 1^is January, there may be renewal of expenditure by decree to be able to pay civil servants, retirees, etc. »she detailed. The government spokesperson, Maud Bregeon, said in particular that she feared a financial crisis and “a Greek scenario”in which civil servants would not be paid in January.

“It creates political instability and that must worry everyone, but we must not have too catastrophic a vision either”replied the President of the Assembly. “I don’t want to worry our compatriots. We have solutions anyway, we are responsible”she added.

“The real risk for democracy is not the shutdown”

The president of the National Rally (RN) deputies in the Assembly, Marine Le Pen, accused, in a column published by Le Figaro Tuesday, the government to broadcast ” fake news “ about the hypothetical non-payment of civil servants. “There is no risk of shutdown in our institutions (…) contrary to what certain members of the government assert in unison”assures the far-right representative.

“The real risk for democracy is not the shutdown: it is fake news [fausses informations] ! »she adds. “We will not let the National Rally become the scapegoat for the incompetence of leaders incapable of debate and compromise”also writes M^me Le Pen, ensuring that he ” propose [et] documented, line by line » and “equilibrium scenario”more than “approach does not[vait] was followed by no effect ».

On his side, the political coordinator of La France insoumise (LFI), Manuel Bompard, spoke on France Inter, believing that “This way of taking the French for imbeciles is just unbearable and unacceptable”. “We must stop with these catastrophic speeches, in France, there is no shutdown” like in the United States, he added. “There is no risk of [parvenir] to a situation in which civil servants are not paid or public services no longer function (…). This is a pure and simple lie: the parliamentary calendar perfectly allows, in this case, to discuss and put in place another budget”developed the deputy for Bouche-du-Rhône.

While the budgetary discussion has largely passed the Senate and several joint committees – made up of seven senators and seven deputies – will try to find compromises on the Social Security and State budgets and on execution for 2024 , the noose is tightening on the government, which plans to use article 49.3 of the Constitution to pass them and therefore expose itself to censorship.

The RN no longer hides its intention to vote on one of the motions of censure which will be tabled by the left if the three budgetary texts remain “as is”, according to Marine Le Pen. With the deputies of the New Popular Front, the majority would be reached and the government of Michel Barnier overthrown. The motion of censure is “a constitutional right which belongs to parliamentarians”recalled Yaël Braun-Pivet, concerned that “everyone puts themselves in a constructive position for the good of our country”.