despite Barnier's announcements, Marine Le Pen gives him “until Monday” to respond to the RN's “red lines”

Marine Le Pen continues to maintain pressure on Michel Barnier. After the announcements made this Thursday by Michel Barnier to the Figaro , who noted, among other things, the cancellation of the increase in the electricity tax and a reduction in exemptions from employer contributions for low wages – two gestures demanded for a long time by the National Rally (RN) -, the leader RN deputies report “still having difficulties” in the draft budget Monde .

While the former presidential candidate maintains her threat to censure the government next week in the event of 49.3 on the Social Security finance bill (PLFSS), she takes the liberty of sending an ultimatum to the first minister. Who has “until Monday” to respond to “four red lines” of the RN. Michel Barnier may have made renunciations, but the flame party is not abandoning its other demands. Such as the revaluation of the pensions of all retirees on January 1, or the cancellation of reimbursement of medicines. Measures which appear in the PLFSS.

“Worry”

Certainly, Michel Barnier has taken a step towards RN. But the member for Pas-de-Calais fears the levers that the government will pull in return for these actions. “We are being told that increases will be canceled without giving us the funding. The Senate financed the suppression of the increase in electricity by that of gas. squeaks Marine Le Pen who says to herself “worry” about it. The opportunity for the former boss of the RN to recall her proposals in terms of financing: “The increase in the tax on financial transactions, the tax on share buybacks, the reduction in the State Medical Aid budget, the reduction in development aid.” A way for the nationalist elected official to criticize the government's method which “does not think other than in tax increases or cuts in benefits.”

Above all, Marine Le Pen cannot digest that Michel Barnier, whom she met face-to-face on Monday at Matignon, refuses to recognize the symbolic victory of the movement chaired by Jordan Bardella. “The attachment to saying that this is not a concession to the RN poses a democratic problem for me. They want our votes and not our heads, we've been living this for forty years.” she complains. Then to send the Prime Minister a final warning before highly tense parliamentary deadlines: “Doing everything possible not to say that he respects the voters of the RN is the best way for our voters to continue to ask us for censorship.”