L’unity as the watchword. “At the request of the Prime Minister, I will call on the political parties represented in the National Assembly and the Senate, as well as the parliamentary groups, to come and dialogue at the ministry with Amélie de Montchalin, the Minister of Public Accounts, and myself », assures Éric Lombard in an interview with La Tribune Sunday.
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The new Minister of the Economy will contact everyone “from [dimanche] morning”, judging that “all elected officials are legitimate” and thus seeming to want to avoid recent controversies, such as that provoked by his predecessor Antoine Armand who, from his first interview at the end of September, indicated excluding the RN from the republican arc, the great irritation of Marine Le Pen.
No priority displayed either: “The order of passage will depend on their availability, and the configuration will be the one they want”, according to the minister, whose door “will remain open until January 14, the date of the policy speech general” by François Bayrou, but “also afterwards”.
“The results of this dialogue” will be presented to Prime Minister François Bayrou, “so that he[s] is translated[sent] in government proposals. The man who was until Monday general director of the Caisse des Dépôts, the leading public financial center, recalls having been “in this capacity in permanent contact with elected officials, local or national”.
Find compromises
While the first secretary of the Socialist Party Olivier Faure, who does not rule out censoring the Bayrou government, nevertheless recognized Tuesday on BFMTV that the Minister of the Economy was “a man of the left and a friend”, the new minister evaded: “I will dialogue with everyone and I will have the same speech with all elected officials. Some may be more committed, others more reluctant. We'll see. We have to find compromises, it’s essential,” he added.
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He intends to “adjust” the finance bill prepared by the Barnier government and left pending during the parliamentary shuttle by the censorship of December 4. The deficit would be included in the text at “a little above 5%” of GDP, “so as to protect growth”.
Éric Lombard also removes the risk of a possible increase in the number of people subject to income tax next year, if the special law which will allow the strict functioning of the State at the start of the year were to continue: it does not allow for the traditional indexation of the scale of this tax to inflation. “We will have a budget which will include an indexation of the scale,” he cut short the questions. “The French who do not pay income taxes today will not pay any tomorrow. »
