The prediction is not very optimistic. Guest of France info this Saturday morning, the Insoumis deputy Éric Coquerel, head of the finance committee of the National Assembly, judges that the new government risks only lasting a few months.
The left has tabled a first motion of censure, which will be examined on Tuesday, two days before the presentation of the budget to deputies. For Éric Coquerel, the finance bill for 2025 will not be voted on in the Chamber. And if the executive opts for the use of article 49.3, “there will be a motion of censure,” he predicts. “We will see what the RN will do. (…) But I think that the government will not make it through the winter,” he said on France Info.
Concerning the ceiling letters, requested by the president of the finance committee of the National Assembly and the general budget rapporteur in order to prepare the examination of the next budget but not submitted by Matignon, they should “take into account the subjects” for which the Constitutional Council will be referred “at the end” of the sequence, announced Éric Coquerel.
“Super-austerity”
MP Insoumis also criticized the plans of Prime Minister Michel Barnier on the budget. “It’s a super-austerity budget” that the government is proposing, he described on France Info.
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Taking the example of ecology, he assured that the project intended to “cut 60% of the Green Funds” – a system aimed at accelerating the ecological transition. Clearly, with “1.5 billion less next year, that’s 5 billion less investment in communities (for ecology). It’s nonsense,” criticized Éric Coquerel.
“We must not be alarmed for (donner) pretexts for austerity. France is not in a situation of bankruptcy”, he again affirmed, recognizing all the same that “the situation (began) to slip,” he admits. “The budget will be very constrained because we are in an extremely serious financial situation” which calls into question “the credibility of France and its ability to borrow at reasonable rates”, for his part had justified the Prime Minister, Michel Barnier, Friday.
