The government and the MPs who support it are seeking to find sources of savings for the 2025 budget. Some are pushing to remove a new public holiday. An idea that is not unanimous, according to “Le Parisien”.
After Pentecost Monday in 2004, will another public holiday be abolished? This idea seems to be gaining ground among certain members of the government and elected officials who support the executive, according to The Parisian. This hypothesis, which would make it possible to generate between 2 and 4 billion in tax revenue – and therefore savings for the 2025 budget, which the State is absolutely seeking to do – was returned to the table by Gérald Darmanin, at the beginning of the month of 'october. The one who was Minister of Public Accounts welcomes the elimination of a second public holiday, “in the public as in the private”.
Several ministers then took his wheel and supported this idea. Antoine Armand, Minister of the Economy and Finance, believes on LCI that it is a “very interesting proposition“Laurent Saint-Martin, Minister of the Budget, wants this to happen.”part of the debates that we will have in Parliament“. A parliamentarian, support of the government, judges, from our colleagues, that it is “the meaning of history“.
The skeptical Prime Minister
If the opposition risks being firmly opposed to this hypothesis, it is at Matignon that the first obstacle lies. “The Prime Minister remembers the establishment of the Pentecost day worked under Raffarin in 2004, which had caused a lot of tension, and he finds that this will tense public opinion“, slips an elected official. Moreover, the Prime Minister's services assure that this “project is not supported by the government“. They specify: “Discussions continue between the government and the majority on various points of adjustment of measures contained in the financial texts.“
Michel Barnier would rather like to concentrate on the overhaul of employer contributions. A project that displeases… To those who defend the elimination of a second public holiday.
published on November 11 at 2:41 p.m., Martin Pereira, 6Medias
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