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9 h 37. According to the France Télévisions group, the interview with the Prime Minister on Tuesday evening, on France 2 and on TF1 at 8 p.m., “brought together a total of 10.3 million viewers” : 4.5 million on France 2 and 5.8 million on TF1.
8 h 54. If the absence of a budget can, in fact, lead to an increase in taxes for certain households – suddenly becoming taxable or changing tax bracket –, as the government indicates, things are a little more complicated, our colleagues point out. of Franceinfo.
In fact, income tax would no longer be indexed to inflation and would be based on the 2024 scale, in the absence of a 2025 PLF. However, all this can be corrected in the coming months, underline Éric Coquerel, president of the commission of finance, and certain economists.
A new text will be developed and examined at the start of the year. And the income tax scale can easily be modified.
Éric Coquerel, MP and chairman of the finance committee, in Les Échos
The absence of indexation of the tax scale is « rattrapable » during 2025, with the development of a new text in Parliament at the start of the year. The scale would therefore only be frozen temporarily and retroactivity is permitted by law.
8 h 52. The first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure calls Emmanuel Macron “to address the French” after the probable censorship of the Barnier government and calls for a “left-wing prime minister”, relays theAFP.
8 h 35. Defeatist, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau believes that“we are moving towards censorship, why hide it? “. On CNews this Wednesday, he conceded “this budget was not perfect”, “it was an emergency copy […] to avoid a serious financial crisis ». However, he calls on the deputies not to vote on the motion of censure, because “the financial markets will be scared”according to him.
8 h 33. According to information from FranceinfoGabriel Attal intends, in the event of government censorship, to convene all the parties, except the RN and LFI, in order to find a compromise to develop a sort of stability pact and not systematically censor the next prime minister.
8 h 21. According to Jean-François Copé, interviewed in the morning of RTL, “a change of government or prime minister will change absolutely nothing about the problem”. He hopes for a rejection of the motion of censure. “Marine Le Pen’s decision to vote with Mélenchon is totally incomprehensible,” he commented.
8 h 15. Although he announced that he would vote for the motion of censure this afternoon, the socialist deputy Arthur Delaporte estimated RFI power “working with macronists”, such as health or school. But he regrets on their part “lack of dialogue”.
7 h 52. To 8 p.m. of TF1 et France 2Prime Minister Michel Barnier attacked the deputies who would vote on the motions of censure tabled against his government.
Without falling into catastrophism, in the same way as Emmanuel Macron or Charles de Courson, who the day before refused to speak of an American-style “shutdown” in the event of the overthrow of the government, Michel Barnier reiterated, as he said above made earlier in front of the deputies, his fears if the budget is abandoned.
“Each MP will have to go and tell the farmers in their constituency why and how agricultural pensions will not increase […]nearly 18 million French people will see their income tax increase or others will start paying it »he listed. “There is a lot of tension in the country”he admitted, calling despite everything to ” be careful “. He still hopes that the censorship will not pass.
7 h 29. Update at the start of the day:
What to remember at 7 a.m.
- Following the government’s use of 49.3 to pass the Social Security budget, two motions of censure were tabled, the first by the left-wing bloc New Popular Front, and the second by the National Rally, rallied by the Union of Rights for the Republic (UDR) by Éric Ciotti.
- The motions of censure will be examined from 4 p.m. this Wednesday, December 4 in the National Assembly. The first debated should be that of the NFP, tabled first.
- The Macronist and Republican clan denounces an LFI-RN “alliance” behind the scenes, the National Rally having indicated that it would vote for the left’s motion of censure.
- The threat is real for the Barnier government. Indeed, from a purely numerical point of view, if all the deputies united under the NFP banner (La France insoumise, the Greens, the Socialist Party and the Communists) as well as the elected RN-UDR votes one of the two motions, the required majority of 289 votes “for” will be largely achieved to overthrow the government. Emmanuel Macron will therefore be in charge of appointing a new prime minister (or renaming Michel Barnier).
- Guest of the “20 Heures” on France 2 and TF1 on Tuesday evening, Michel Barnier declared: “If I have to leave the power to act and give way to someone else, then it will be necessary for the deputies, if there are unrest” in the country explain it to their voters. “I think there is a lot of tension in the country and we have to be careful,” he added.
- From Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), Emmanuel Macron said that he did not want to “believe in the vote of censorship”. By voting for the left, the RN would be “unbearably cynical”, he judged. On a possible resignation, he said that it was “political fiction”.
