While the RN warned that it would vote to censure the government if its “red lines” on the budget were not taken into account by Monday, Marine Le Pen ensures that she remains “constructive”.
She places the responsibility for possible censorship on Michel Barnier who refuses to “negotiate”.
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The head of the RN deputies called on the Prime Minister on Saturday for final concessions to avoid censorship which, she assures, is not “not inevitable”. “All it takes is for Michel Barnier to agree to negotiate”says Marine Le Pen in an interview with La Tribune Sundayclearly annoyed that the RN, the first group in the National Assembly, had not been approached sooner to “participate in developing a budget”.
Received for the first time in Matignon last Monday, the head of the RN deputies says she is staying “constructive”but warned the Prime Minister that if he refused to negotiate with the RN, it would be he who would then take “the decision to trigger censorship”.
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She claims to have “drawn barely 10% of the measurements” of the counter-budget presented by the National Rally “for make red lines namely eliminations of taxes or duties with, in return, new revenue, since we obviously do not want to worsen the deficit”.
However, is the government ready for new actions? Alerting “on the bill of censorship” in an interview with Parisianthe Minister of Public Accounts Laurent Saint-Martin estimated that the social security financing bill (PLFSS), on which the National Assembly will have to vote on Monday, was the result of a compromise between senators and deputies . “Censoring this text would amount to censoring a democratic agreement”.
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