A final Council of Ministers then a new head of government: Emmanuel Macron promised to appoint by this Thursday, December 12, and indeed from Wednesday, Michel Barnier's successor at Matignon, who will be responsible for negotiating, at a minimum, a agreement to avoid censorship.
The day after an unprecedented meeting around the president of party leaders outside the LFI and RN, Michel Barnier and his government met on Wednesday morning one last time at the Elysée – an extremely rare occurrence for a resigning team.
On the menu for this Council of Ministers: a draft “special law” to ensure the continuity of the State from January. The censorship of Michel Barnier last week, barely three months after his appointment, effectively left the 2025 budget in suspense.
This “temporary law”, the adoption of which there is practically no doubt, will be examined on Monday in the National Assembly, then on December 18 in the Senate.
The text is reduced to its simplest expression to authorize the government to raise taxes and spend credits on the basis of the budget for the current year.
The left, however, intends to amend it to ensure that the income tax scale is well indexed to inflation, in order to prevent a large number of French people from being subject to their tax burden.
The Council of State stressed on Tuesday that this provision had no place in a special law. The socialists plead for the political forces to adopt this amendment and not then refer the adopted law to the Constitutional Council, in order to avoid its censorship.
After this Council of Ministers, the way will be clear to appoint a new Prime Minister.
Tuesday, in front of the leaders of the communists, socialists, ecologists, the presidential camp and the Les Républicains party, Emmanuel Macron promised to appoint him “within 48 hours”. Several relatives are counting on a choice from Wednesday evening.
