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12 h 35. The draft “special law” to avoid the paralysis of the State was presented to the Council of Ministers this Wednesday. The text mainly aims to authorize the tax services to continue to collect tax after 1is January 2025, and the government to cover its current expenses on the basis of the 2024 budget. We detail the content of the text.
12 h 06. Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday in the Council of Ministers that the “base” of parties which supported the executive of Michel Barnier, bringing together the presidential camp and the right, had not been able “as is” be expanded, reported Maud Bregeon.
The president has “insisted on the fact that there was currently no broader base than that which is in place today. And it therefore remained to be seen whether some were ready to broaden this base or to agree on a principle of non-censorship”she added.
11 h 58. “The country has neither the luxury of instability nor the luxury of immobility”declared Maud Bregeon, spokesperson for the resigned government, after the council of ministers. According to her, Emmanuel Macron did not “not given any indication of the temporality of his choice” for a new prime minister.
“The President of the Republic is the guarantor of the institutions, he seeks a stability solution with the aim of having the broadest possible basis of stability”she assured, adding that the head of state “reach out” to other political groups.
11 h 35. The council of ministers is over. The “special law” to allow tax to be raised should be examined in the Assembly on Monday December 16, 2024. This law will ensure “the continuity of state services”.
“It should not allow the tax scale to be indexed to inflation”indicated Laurent Saint-Martin at the end of the council of ministers. And “should not be able to be amended”.
Regarding a possible tax increase, it will not take place on 1is January 2025, as sometimes mentioned. If a finance law is passed before spring, the indexation of tax to inflation could be put in place, as we explained in our Désinfox section.
11 h 15. Pass of arms between Manuel Bompard and Olivier Faure. The LFI coordinator accuses Olivier Faure of attacking “to the rebels to hide a change of line. » “Refusing to censor a Macronist or right-wing government would be a denial of the NFP”he said.
10 h 50. Marine Le Pen well ahead in the first round of the next presidential election? According to an Ifop-Fiducial survey for The Figaro Magazine et South Radiothe leader of the RN would be credited with 36 to 38% voting intention in the first round.
According to this poll, carried out online from December 6 to 9 with 1,101 participants, therefore after the motion of censure which led to the overthrow of the Barnier government, Marine Le Pen would obtain 36% of the votes against Édouard Philippe (25%) and even 38%. against Gabriel Attal (20%).
“It gains two points compared to the same survey in September”analyzed Frédéric Dabi, director general of Ifop.
10 h 20. Anne Genetet would not be against returning to the Ministry of National Education. “I am at the service of my country, I am at the disposal of the President of the Republic. It’s his choice and his only choice.”she said on South Radio adding that “National Education is a beautiful house that needs stability”.
10 h. The final council of ministers of the Barnier government will begin at the Élysée.
9 h 40. The François Bayrou hypothesis at Matignon is not at all to Nicolas Sarkozy's taste according to Noé Gandillot, political journalist at LCI, and the former president would have made it known. According to our colleague, The Republicans are hoping for the nomination of Sébastien Lecornu or Catherine Vautrin.
9 h 22. The LFI deputy for Bouches-du-Rhône also indicated that his group will not oppose the special law for the 2025 Budget. “We will also ask for an amendment to ensure that the reindexation of income tax is included in this law”he added while the threat of a tax increase looms.
9 h 16. Manuel Bompard, LFI national coordinator responded to Olivier Faure on Franceinfo. According to him, “There is no such thing as a non-censorship agreement.” “If some people fall into the trap of a grand coalition, […]obviously they are going to fracture the NFP”he said.
However, he agrees with the first secretary of the PS on one point: he does not want François Bayrou at Matignon. “François Bayrou, he was Emmanuel Macron’s minister, so the François Bayrou hypothesis will be censorship”he declared.
9 h 05. Olivier Faure did not fail to tackle Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of LFI. “The more Jean-Luc Mélenchon shouts, the less we hear him”he said on BFMTV.
“We cannot be the front of refusal, we cannot live with this permanent gloom”he developed. “LFI gives you the feeling of being close to the adventure […] They weaken the left. »
8 h 50. What will be the name of the next prime minister? “It can’t be François Bayrou”replied Olivier Faure on BFMTV. His appointment would give “continuity signal” of the policy of the President of the Republic including “the French don’t want it”.
8 h 46. Guest of BFMTVOlivier Faure, first secretary of the Socialist Party, expressed his wish to see “ a left-wing prime minister who is open to compromise.” “We can’t spend our time saying no”he added. The socialist also indicated that “if we (the socialists, Editor’s note) govern, we undertake not to use 49.3”.
8 h 31. « We need institutional stability. We cannot afford not to have a government or a budget”indicated Geoffroy Didier, Deputy Secretary General of the LR, on Franceinfo. The LR deputies are “in favor of a non-censorship agreement”he explained while reaffirming that LR would censor “any government with LFI ministers or which would implement the program of the New Popular Front”.
The parties “will not demand” a right-wing prime minister, and is not opposed to the hypothesis François Bayrou, who “could be a solution”.
8 h 06. “I ask the NFP formations to get out of this mess”called the LFI deputy and president of the finance committee in the Assembly Éric Coquerel. According to him, the non-censorship agreement if there is no 49.3 is not a good thing. “If we refrain from censoring, that means that the opposition gives up opposing”he shouted on TF1. “We are not going to let bills pass in the name of stability. If stability means trying to impose on the NFP the maintenance of this policy (of the government), it is denying our voters. I hope that we will eventually take stock of this government. »
7 h 44. Guest of Télématin, Marine Le Pen reaffirmed that she was “convinced that the future prime minister will understand that, in a democracy, it is necessary to speak to all political forces”including the National Rally. “We’re not asking for the moon. We demand that democracy and our 11 million voters be respected”she added. On the censorship of Michel Barnier, she justified herself by denouncing a “toxic budget”. “In one vote, we saved the French 40 billion in taxes”smiled the RN leader. “I’m not unhappy not to have been invited” at the meeting of party leaders at the Élysée on Tuesday, she added, specifying that she would not have gone.
7 h 26. The resigning government will hold its most likely last council of ministers on Wednesday from 10 a.m. The main subject on the agenda will be the presentation of the draft “special law” for the 2025 budget. Budget Minister Laurent Saint-Martin will also be present at the minutes of the Council of Ministers to present this law.
7 h 10. Will Michel Barnier's successor be known during the day? At the end of new discussions with all parties – with the exception of the RN and LFI – Emmanuel Macron expressed on Tuesday December 10 the wish to appoint a new head of government “within 48 hours”. Or by Thursday evening.
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