The RN will present “a counter-budget” on Wednesday, deeming that of the government “not acceptable”

Friday, Marine Le Pen denounced on X “the obvious lie” of the executive on the budget.

The National Rally will present on Wednesday, the date of the start of the examination in committee of the 2025 finance bill, “a counter-budget”, judging the government’s current copy “absolutely not acceptable”, the frontist deputy said on Saturday Thomas Ménage.

“As things currently stand, this budget is absolutely not acceptable,” insisted the elected official on franceinfo.

“Very clear red lines” have been crossed, he added, referring to the tax on electricity, the reduction in reimbursement for medical consultations, the increase in taxes on air transport, but also the increase in tax on gas that the Minister of Ecological Transition and Energy, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, wishes to include in the finance bill.

“We are going to use all our parliamentary time to bring this government back to reason,” assured Laurent Jacobelli, vice-president of the RN group in the National Assembly, on France Inter.

Censure?

Asked about a possible motion of censure, he remained evasive. “I am not here to break the Fifth Republic, we are here to save the French,” he assured while his party is accused by the left of supporting the Barnier coalition by not having voted, the October 8, the motion tabled by the New Popular Front to bring down the government.

Friday, Marine Le Pen denounced on X “the obvious lie” of the executive on the budget.

The leader of the deputies of the National Rally has adopted the structural method used by the High Council for Public Finances which shows a budgetary effort concentrated 70% on an increase in taxation and 30% on a reduction in spending next year, the opposite of what the government is putting forward, which has promised a two-thirds effort to reduce spending.