Mathilde Panot in Paris, July 9, 2024. (AFP / BERTRAND GUAY)
At the microphone of France Info this Thursday, November 28, the president of the LFI group in the National Assembly Mathilde Panot hopes for “a new budgetary discussion at the beginning of January which will allow the new government to put in place a new budget”.
Mathilde Panot doesn't think much of Michel Barnier's government. On
France Info
this Thursday, November 28, the president of the LFI group in the National Assembly estimated that
the current Prime Minister “will not spend the end of the year with his government
which has no popular base.
So what about the budget?
“We are not in the United States,
where if you don't have a budget by a certain date, you have a 'shutdown' – civil servants are no longer paid, museums close, public services stop… France is not at all in this situation”, she replied. In the event of censorship from Michel Barnier's government, “there may be
a new budgetary discussion in January”,
she continued.
“They can explain to us that it's going to be a catastrophe, chaos, a rain of locusts, a nuclear accident, but the reality is that
we have enough to ensure the continuity of the State,
and above all to have a new budgetary discussion at the beginning of January which will allow the new government – I hope, of the New Popular Front – to put in place
a new budget”,
concluded Mathilde Panot.
Towards a repeal of the pension reform?
This Thursday, the left, supported by the RN, will try in the National Assembly
to repeal the much-maligned 2023 pension reform
. A parenthesis in the current budgetary storm: La France insoumise has its annual parliamentary day reserved for its texts this Thursday.
The day before, seven deputies and seven senators agreed on
a compromise for the Social Security budget
who returns to the hemicycle on Monday. If at that time, Michel Barnier decides to trigger 49.3 for adoption without a vote, he will have to submit to
a motion of censure promised by the left and which the National Rally threatens to vote on.
Unless the “concessions” announced this Thursday by Finance Minister Antoine Armand convince the far right to abstain.
“We will never accept blackmail”, assures the PS
On Monday, Michel Barnier
warned of “the storm” that a fall of the government would trigger,
particularly in the financial markets.
“The financial crisis has already started”,
sharply replied RN MP Jean-Philippe Tanguy, citing the “spread”, the gap between French 10-year sovereign rates and those of Germany considered a safe haven in Europe, at its highest level since 2012.
Failing to convince the RN, the government pointed out
an “unheard of responsibility” of the socialists,
according to spokesperson Maud Bregeon. “We will never accept blackmail”, retorted the boss of the PS senators Patrick Kanner received at Matignon.
