Is Michel Barnier’s government living its last days? Marine Le Pen, the leader of the RN deputies, has toughened her speech towards the executive, and is now threatening to vote on a motion of censure if the 2027 budget, which provides for 60 billion euros of savings, undermines the purchasing power of the French. Given the positions of left-wing deputies, determined to vote for censure, the votes of the RN would have the effect of bringing down the government.
“We will see in the hours, in the days to come, if the threats from one or the other [se réalisent]because it’s not just Madame Le Pen,” reacted Hervé Marseille, the president of the centrist senators at the Public Senate microphone. “There are Madame Le Pen’s 143 deputies with those of Éric Ciotti, but there is also the left which has the choice,” points out the elected official from Hauts-de-Seine.
“Think republican front”
“Everyone must take responsibility. I think that this alliance with LFI is incomprehensible,” regrets Hervé Marseille, who criticizes the socialists in particular for suffering the hegemony of the Mélenchonists. “We see clearly on the electoral level why all this exists, but we also understand how difficult it is for many socialists and other men and women of the left to support this leadership,” relates the senator. “Instead of thinking Popular Front, socialists should try to think Republican Front and imagine that we can work in a different scope. »
Boris Vallaud, the president of the PS deputies, but also Patrick Kanner, his Senate counterpart, said they were ready to open discussions with other parliamentary groups, beyond the ranks of the left, to consider the post-Barnier era. . A scenario that makes their rebellious partners bristle.
Marine Le Pen’s demands
For her part, Marine Le Pen ups the ante and asks for a helping hand from the government, in particular the cancellation of the increase in the electricity tax. However, this cancellation has already been voted by the senatorial majority of the right and the center, against the advice of the government.
“We considered that it was more virtuous to tax gas, which is a fossil energy, and to withdraw the government’s proposal on electricity,” explains Hervé Marseille as the examination of the finance bill for 2027 takes place. continues in the Upper House. “The electricity needs to go down. It is a good that is necessary and used on a daily basis by all French people. So I think that’s a good direction. In any case, if it satisfies Madame Le Pen, so much the better,” concludes the elected official.
