This live is over.
The rebellious tribune once again vilifies his left-wing allies. After a meeting on Wednesday January 8 evening in Bercy bringing together the leaders of the socialist, environmentalist and communist parties for discussions on France’s budget for 2025, Jean-Luc Mélenchon criticized the attitude of his partners in the New Popular Front (NFP ). “This “The way of negotiating behind the back of the NFP and against its program is a total disrespect for our alliance.”he got carried away on X, while La France insoumise refused to respond to the invitation from the government of François Bayrou. “The traditional little left has nothing to offer and its negotiators are just ridiculously servile”he pressed. For the first time, environmentalist, socialist and communist leaders had a joint meeting with the Ministers of Economy and Public Accounts, Eric Lombard and Amélie de Montchalin, in Bercy. The meeting lasted approximately three hours, from 7:45 p.m. to 11 p.m.
“As long as there is no end to this, we will continue to fight,” says Fabien Roussel. The national secretary of the Communist Party affirmed that “the new room for maneuver that could exist” to negotiate the budget were not “not yet clear”at the end of the meeting in Bercy between communist executives and the Ministers of the Economy and Public Accounts. However, “there is no end of refusal” imposed by the government, affirms Fabien Roussel, who believes that this first discussion “call others”. The PCF calls for new negotiations, particularly concerning pensions, to “suspend the age measurement and ensure that those who could have retired at 62 can retire today”. Like the other left-wing parties, he repeated that “if there is no change” compared to the budget presented by Michel Barnier, “the same causes will produce the same effects”namely government censorship.
The Ecologists do not rule out voting for censorship in the absence of compromise on pensions. Marine Tondelier believes that Eric Lombard is “open to discussion and almost sincere on certain subjects”more “either they manage to find a compromise with us, and we manage to improve the daily lives of the French”either “the same causes will produce the same effects”she says in reference to the censorship voted against the government of Michel Barnier. At the end of her interview in Bercy, the boss of environmentalists announced a joint meeting with the PS and PCF. “We agreed to stay for another working meeting this evening, which was planned with the Socialist Party, to which the Communist Party and the environmentalists will join, because we also believe that there is strength in unity”she said. The executives of these three parties had already been received separately, Tuesday for the Socialist Party, and Wednesday for the Communist Party and the Ecologists.
The general secretary of the CGT Sophie Binet received at Matignon. While Bercy discusses the budget, François Bayrou meets the social partners. He received Sophie Binet on Wednesday at 7 p.m. At the end of their exchange, she declared on BFMTV that the Prime Minister “wished to open discussions as soon as possible” on the question of pension reform. The day before, his counterpart at CFDT, Marylise Léon, received at Matignon, estimated on LCI, at the end of the interview, that François Bayrou had not “no taboo” on all matters related to pensions, “including the legal age”. Received before her, the president of Medef, Patrick Martin, said he wanted to broaden the discussion on pensions to “financing social protection” by the “capitalisation” or the “taxation”.
Discussions to be completed before January 14. All these exchanges should allow the government to refine its draft budget in view of the Prime Minister’s general policy declaration to Parliament, scheduled for January 14. François Bayrou should then unveil the main points of the finance bill and the Social Security financing bill.
The Senate will resume debates on the budget on January 15. Senators will resume in a week the debates on the 2025 draft budget interrupted by the fall of Michel Barnier’s government a month ago, the conference of presidents of the upper house decided on Wednesday. In order to provide the country with a budget as quickly as possible, the Senate, dominated by an alliance of the right and the center, will take up the text drawn up by the previous executive which could be amended along the way with the measures that that of François Bayrou is currently negotiating with the various parties to avoid further censorship.
