Is Michel Barnier living his last hours in Matignon? Government censorship “is not inevitable” if the Prime Minister “agrees to negotiate” with the National Rally on the budgetary texts, assured the head of RN deputies, Marine Le Pen, Sunday December 1, in an interview with La Tribune Sunday. The party with the flame threatens to vote on censure next week on the Social Security budget if it does not obtain new concessions. Follow the political news this Sunday in our live stream.
The government is ruling out new “concessions”. In an interview with Parisianthe Minister of Public Accounts, Laurent Saint-Martin, affirmed on Sunday that the draft budget for Social Security was now “the fruit of a parliamentary compromise between deputies and senators” and that “to go back on it would be to sit on Parliament”. alerting “on the bill of censorship”he added that “censoring this text would amount to censoring a democratic agreement”.
A week of truth for Michel Barnier. The Social Security financing bill (PLFSS) will be back in the National Assembly on Monday. Without a majority, the Prime Minister could choose to activate article “49.3” of the Constitution, which allows the approval of a text without a vote. But he would be exposed to the first motion of censure of the fall which could be examined on Wednesday. If the left and the National Rally unite their voices, the government will fall.
And meanwhile, in the Senate… The Senate must vote, on Sunday, on the “revenue” section of the state budget for 2025. Pillar of “barnierism”, dominated by an alliance of the right and the center which supports the government, it generally approved, this week, the The essential measures of the government, seeking 60 billion euros in savings to reduce the deficit to 5% of GDP in 2025, against 6.1% in 2024.
Lucie Castets calls for “working now” to win the elections. The head of the Ecologists, Marine Tondelier, and Lucie Castets, candidate in Matignon for the New Popular Front last summer, called on Saturday for a “common application” of the left in the next presidential election, the day after an intervention on the same theme by Jean-Luc Mélenchon. “We do not have the luxury of divisions or improvisation”pleaded Lucie Castets, Sunday, on franceinfo.
