The First Secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, assured this Thursday, November 21 that if the government passes the 2025 budget by 49.3, the left will vote for a motion of censure against it.
The left continues to threaten to censor the government. “Is he ready to make concessions, is he ready to move forward with Parliament?”, asked the First Secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, on RMC-BFMTV this Thursday, November 21.
The left has been protesting for several weeks against the draft budget presented by the government for 2025, denouncing too strong an attack on the purchasing power of the French. “I much prefer to make big companies, big fortunes pay, rather than making the vast majority of French people pay,” said Olivier Faure.
“It is possible not to censor the government, on the condition that it hears Parliament,” he warned, saying he “deeply disagreed” with the draft budget.
Towards adoption by 49.3?
Michel Barnier announced last week that he will “probably” hold his government responsible for the budget through article 49.3 of the Constitution, which allows adoption of the text without a vote.
“When I see what happened in the Assembly”, where its supporters from the right and the center rejected the draft budget for 2025 which had been profoundly modified by the left, “it seems difficult to me to do differently at the end of the discussion,” said the Prime Minister in an interview with the regional daily. “But you will observe that we have chosen to let the debate take place there,” he added.
While 49.3 can be followed by the filing of a motion of censure, the response that would be provided by the left is not in doubt, for Olivier Faure. “If the government passes in force with a 49.3, (…) the only element we have at our disposal to make ourselves respected and to make ourselves heard is to effectively threaten censorship,” he said. on RMC-BFMTV Thursday.
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Michel Barnier has worked since his appointment under the threat of censorship promised by the left, and to which the extreme right is increasingly raising the possibility of joining, during the parliamentary debates on the budget, which would fall his government. In this case, “the left will have to be called into government”, once again declared Olivier Faure.
The Prime Minister is due to receive all the presidents of parliamentary groups, including those of the opposition, at the start of next week in order to discuss the budgetary texts for 2025.
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