Like a house of cards, Michel Barnier's foundation is about to collapse. And the announced fall of the Prime Minister, in the very probable case of adoption of the motion of censure mixing the voices of the left and the extreme right, Wednesday December 4, raises the specter of governmental instability. A new aftermath of the failed dissolution of Emmanuel Macron.
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Without a majority in the National Assembly, Michel Barnier used, Monday December 2, Article 49 paragraph 3 of the Constitution to have the Social Security financing bill adopted without a vote. The Prime Minister finally resolved to this option on the text resulting from the compromise obtained between deputies and senators, Wednesday, in the joint committee on the “Secu” budget. “It is necessary for France to have a social security financing project and a budget for 2025. For this, I have reached the end of the dialogue with all the political groups always remaining open and listening”, supported the tenant of Matignon. A barely veiled allusion to the numerous concessions made by the Savoyard to the deputies of the National Rally (RN) and their leader, Marine Le Pen.
In less than a week, the president of the far-right group exerted maximum pressure on the Prime Minister to obtain measures to strengthen her popular electorate. Cornered, Michel Barnier agreed to give pledges to the far right by removing the surcharge on electricity and announcing a reform of state medical aid.
Agent you chaos
The culmination of these chaotic negotiations, Matignon published a press release, Monday at midday, in which the government renounced the 5% reduction in the reimbursement of medicines, emphasizing that this was a response to the wishes of the RN, after a telephone exchange between Michel Barnier and Marine Le Pen. An 800 million euro measure deemed insufficient by the frontist leader who raised the stakes, once again, calling for the indexation of retirement pensions to inflation, tabling an amendment to this effect.
From the podium of the Assembly, Michel Barnier then closes the door to the new amendments of the RN. Marine Le Pen's group and her Ciottist allies ultimately table their motion of censure and announce that they will vote for the one defended by the left. “Mr. Barnier did not wish to respond to the request of the eleven million voters of the National Rally, he said that everyone would assume their responsibilities. We will therefore assume ours,” challenged Marine Le Pen on Monday in front of the press.
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