Taxes, pensions, minimum wage, immigration and even end of life, Michel Barnier delivered his general policy declaration on Tuesday which sets out the main directions of his government. As tradition dictates, it is the turn of the group presidents of the National Assembly to speak from the perch of the hemicycle, starting with Marine Le Pen who indicates that the National Rally will not censor “a priori” the government of Michel Barnier so as not to pursue a “politics of the worst”.
The main information:
- After Michel Barnier’s general policy declaration, the group presidents of the National Assembly speak successively
- Marine Le Pen indicates that the RN will refuse “a priori to censor the government” of Michel Barnier
- The leader of the RN demands a new immigration law at the start of 2025
- “Censor (the) government”, “dismiss the president” and “replace him”, the priorities of LFI
- Attal once again calls for reform of unemployment insurance
Bruno Retailleau will have the full support of the Republicans, announces Wauquiez
The head of the Republicans in the Assembly, Laurent Wauquiez, made a point of giving the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau, senator LR, the full support of the party.
“Censor (the) government”, “remove the president” and “replace him”: LFI’s priorities
The president of the LFI group in the Assembly, Mathilde Panot, assured Tuesday on the occasion of Michel Barnier’s general policy declaration that her group would have “three priorities” in the face of the “chaos” left by Emmanuel Macron: “censor ( his) government”, “remove” and “replace” him.
“You no longer have any legitimacy to impose your policy of misfortune”, while “you are groveling in front of the extreme right”, and “all you have to do is leave”, launched Mathilde Panot in the hemicycle, s addressing the President of the Republic, beyond Michel Barnier. She also attacked the RN, described as a “stooge” for having committed not to censor the government a priori.
“Hollow, pontificating, repeating banalities”: Mélenchon reacts to Barnier’s speech
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of La France insoumise, reacted to Michel Barnier’s general policy declaration, first qualifying him as a “usurper of electoral legitimacy” in the movement of LFI elected officials who brandished their election cards. voter at the start of the Prime Minister’s speech. For him, the head of government “pleads for compromise through intrigue and prides himself on applying the laws he fought.” “Hollow, pontificating, repeating banalities, it is not an action program but a countdown before liquidation,” he decided on X.
Attal once again calls for reform of unemployment insurance
Former Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, president of the Macronist group in the Assembly, insisted Tuesday against Michel Barnier that the recovery of accounts must first be achieved by reducing spending, and called for the resumption of insurance reform. unemployment which he had incurred.
“We will only keep control of our accounts by reducing our spending,” launched the president of the Ensemble pour la République (EPR, ex-Renaissance) group from the podium of the National Assembly, in response to the policy declaration General of the Prime Minister. “The right method, in our opinion, is the following: less spending and certainly not more taxes,” he insisted.
Gabriel Attal calls on the PS not to fail in “the call for unity”
Succeeding Marine Le Pen to the perch, Gabriel Attal, leader of the Macronist deputies, assured that to “act”, we had to “change our habits, get away from sterile debates, artificial oppositions, sectarianism and political postures which do not “do not move the country forward. He thus called on “the Socialist Party, the government party”, to respond to “the call for unity” and not to censor the Barnier government.
Le Pen demands a new immigration law against Barnier at the start of 2025
Marine Le Pen demanded on Tuesday that Michel Barnier’s government present a new immigration law, taking up the measures censored by the Constitutional Council during the examination of the previous law.
“We ask you (…) to put back on the agenda, from the first quarter of 2025, a restrictive immigration law, incorporating at a minimum the provisions censored by the Constitutional Council”, launched the boss of the RN deputies to the Prime Minister after its general policy statement to the Assembly. She placed this request among the “red lines” likely to motivate censorship of the government by her group.
