“As long as there is no end to this, we will continue to fight.” Fabien Roussel, national secretary of the Communist Party, affirmed that “the new room for maneuver that could exist” to negotiate France’s budget for 2025 were not “not yet clear”at the end of the meeting in Bercy between communist executives, the Minister of the Economy, Éric Lombard, and the Minister responsible for Public Accounts, Amélie de Montchalin, Wednesday January 8.
However, “there is no end of refusal” imposed by the government, affirms Fabien Roussel, who believes that this first discussion “call others”. The PCF calls for new negotiations, particularly concerning pensions, to “suspend the age measurement and ensure that those who could have retired at 62 can retire today”. But like the other left-wing parties, he repeated that “if there is no change” compared to the budget presented by Michel Barnier, “the same causes will produce the same effects”namely government censorship. Follow our live stream.
The Ecologists do not rule out voting for censorship in the absence of compromise on pensions. Marine Tondelier believes that François Bayrou is “open to discussion and almost sincere on certain subjects”more “either they manage to find a compromise with us, and we manage to improve the daily lives of the French”either “the same causes will produce the same effects”she says in reference to the censorship voted against the government of Michel Barnier.
Discussions to be completed before January 14. All these exchanges should allow the government to refine its draft budget in view of the Prime Minister’s general policy declaration to Parliament, scheduled for January 14. François Bayrou should then unveil the main points of the finance bill and the Social Security financing bill.
François Bayrou is flexible on pensions, according to Marylise Léon. At the number one of the CFDT, received late Tuesday afternoon, the Prime Minister said he had not “no taboo” on all matters related to pensions, “including legal age”said the union leader on Wednesday on LCI. For the first union, this subject “must be reopened with everything possible and imaginable in terms of financing”. Received before her, the president of Medef, Patrick Martin, said he wanted to broaden the discussion on pensions to “financing social protection” by the “capitalisation” or the “taxation”.
