This Monday evening on BFMTV, the socialist deputy for Eure Philippe Brun affirmed that the draft budget proposed by the government during a meeting organized earlier in the day “will worsen the crisis we are experiencing today”.
This Monday afternoon, Philippe Brun said he had “the impression of having witnessed a bad comedy” and of having “participated in a farce”. The PS deputy for Eure and vice-president of the finance committee was one of the socialist negotiators received by the ministers of Labor, Economy and Public Accounts to obtain a non-censorship agreement from the government of François Bayrou.
But the project put on the table by Catherine Vautrin, Éric Lombard and Amélie de Montchalin did not at all convince Philippe Brun and his colleagues. “What was presented to us earlier at the meeting? Well it's neither more nor less than Michel Barnier's budget but worse, with even fewer taxes for the very, very rich ” and “a certain number of credits which will decrease for certain essential missions”, he lamented.
“We are being offered a budget that will worsen the crisis”
“There, we are being offered a budget which will aggravate the crisis we are experiencing today and will not resolve the difficulties that the French are experiencing,” he summarized.
With regard more precisely to pension reform, the subject at the heart of the discussions, Philippe Brun affirms that the ministers have closed the door to any suspension of the text: “This afternoon we are told: 'No, ultimately it is not. There will be no suspension, only a big discussion.”
Under these conditions, “as it stands, obviously, as there is no agreement, we are voting for censure” after the general policy speech that François Bayrou is to give to the National Assembly on Tuesday afternoon, -he affirmed.
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From now on, the game is played at Matignon. The boss of the PS Olivier Faure and the heads of socialist deputies and senators, Boris Vallaud and Patrick Kanner, were received this Monday at 6:30 p.m. by François Bayrou for a last-ditch meeting to try to obtain a non-censorship agreement.
At the end of this meeting, the secretary general of the Socialist Party Pierre Jouvet indicated “that there is no significant progress” in the discussions with Matignon. “And even a priori on the contrary, at the moment when we are speaking”, clarified the one who is a Member of the European Parliament. “We reminded him of our requests, what we have been doing for several weeks. We must find stability in the country and build compromises,” he declared this Monday evening on BFMTV.
“As I speak to you, the proposals that are on the table are not acceptable to the Socialist Party and we regret that,” continued Pierre Jouvet.
François Bayrou will deliver his general policy speech this Tuesday afternoon at the National Assembly, during which he will present the broad outlines of his political line.
