Michel Barnier will receive “early next week” all the presidents of parliamentary groups, including those of the opposition, in order to discuss the budgetary texts for 2025, his entourage announced Monday, November 18, against a backdrop of threat of censorship from the government.
The group leaders in the National Assembly and the Senate will be received one by one by the Prime Minister, and if a political party is present in both chambers, the two presidents will be received together, it was specified, confirming a information from Parisian.
The entourage of Marine Le Pen (National Rally, RN) and Mathilde Panot (La France insoumise, LFI), leaders of the first two opposition groups in the Assembly, confirmed to Agence France-Presse that they had received the invitation .
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“Identify priorities”
“These discussions make it possible to identify the priorities of the different parliamentary groups in order to guarantee that the financial texts meet the expectations of citizens while ensuring budgetary sustainability”Matignon was assured, specifying that “the objective is to achieve a balance between the ambitions of the parliamentary groups and the imperatives of rigor” budgetary.
For Michel Barnier, who has worked since his appointment under the threat of censorship promised by the left, and who seems to be increasingly seducing the far right, these meetings will also be an opportunity to take the pulse of the RN group, chaired by by Marine Le Pen.
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The government “take the path” of censorship, said Monday evening on BFM-TV Jordan Bardella, president of the RN. “Now we need action”he continued, stressing that Marine Le Pen's invitation to Matignon will allow his party to reaffirm its “red lines”as “the price of electricity”, “purchasing power” or “immigration control”.
