“I didn't believe she would dare,” said Prime Minister Michel Barnier on Monday after a telephone conversation with Marine Le Pen, determined to vote for censorship despite the multiple concessions made to the RN, a president of the bloc's group said on Tuesday. central.
“Until yesterday, the Prime Minister did not believe that the RN would censor,” explained this source, while the far-right party is preparing to vote on Wednesday evening on the motion of censure tabled by the left.
During the meeting of group leaders of the “common base” (Renaissance, MoDem, Horizons and LR), during which Michel Barnier informed his troops of his intention to use 49.3 to have the Social Security budget adopted without a vote, the latter absented himself to respond to Marine Le Pen.
“When he came back, he was different. At one point he told us this sentence – I don't think it was a calculated sentence, I really think it was spontaneous -, 'I didn't believe she would dare',” said this group leader.
And paraphrasing Michel Barnier: “We see clearly that each time we let go of something, it asks for something else, and that at some point, we probably have to stop.”
