DIRECT. Budget 2025: Michel Barnier announces that he will “not increase taxes on electricity”, towards a 14% drop in prices

Michel Barnier announces that he will “not increase taxes on electricity”

Michel Barnier announces that he will “not increase taxes on electricity” as initially planned in the draft budget for 2025, acceding to one of the requests in particular from the National Rally so as not to censor the government. “I have decided not to increase taxes on electricity in the 2025 finance bill”, “this will allow a reduction in electricity prices of 14%, which will therefore go well beyond the reduction of 9% initially planned”, asserts the Prime Minister in extracts from an interview with Le Figaro, posted online on Thursday. “Whether it was in my majority or the opposition leaders that I received: almost all of them asked me to evolve,” he explains.

Only around ten amendments discussed at midday

Just before the southern break, the Assembly had examined – and rejected – around ten amendments, out of the more than 700 to be discussed, the overheated debates being interspersed with multiple reminders of the rules and suspensions of sessions to restore calm.

The deputies thus began by debating for almost ten minutes a proposal – ultimately rejected – aimed at qualifying the LFI text as an “electoral and ideological approach”. “For the central bloc which has spent years denouncing obstruction , (…) it’s still quite tasty”, quipped Matthias Renault (RN). “We will not participate in this comedy and your clown amendments!”, fumed Hadrien Clouet (LFI). “The circus in Parliament is you who make it!”, replied Richard Ramos (Modem).

“Shame on you”, indignant the rapporteur of the project to repeal the reform

“Shame on you for being obstructive and stubborn, when 70% of French people remain opposed to your reform,” the rapporteur (LFI) of the text, Ugo Bernalicis, was indignant this morning in the hemicycle. “If you prevent us from voting today, it will only be one more reason to censor you,” added the leader of the rebellious deputies, Mathilde Panot.

As a reminder, elected officials from the right and the center tabled hundreds of amendments in order to delay the debates – a strategy described by the left as “unworthy sabotage” or “thug method”, and against which LFI called for a gathering at 7:00 p.m. at Les Invalides, not far from the Assembly.

Manuel Bompard denounces the obstruction of the government which seeks to prevent the vote on the repeal of the pension reform

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Antoine Armand calls on parties not to put the country “in the red”

“What I say to the political parties which have nothing in common, all to the right or all to the left of the hemicycle, is (that) it is not because we do not have an agreement with a government that weakens its country. It is not because we do not agree with a policy that we put a country in the red. It is not because we are not. disagree with a Prime Minister and with a government that we are plunging the country into the budgetary and financial unknown,” he also said this Thursday morning on BFMTV/RMC.

If the government falls, without a budget having been voted on, “we risk losing control like a plane which is at altitude and which at one point risks losing control. However, there is a path: this path is is this budget”, he added, while recognizing that it could be improved. On the contrary, “there is the path to the unknown, there is the path to degradation, there is the path to the dislocation of the country, there is the path to leaping into the budgetary, economic unknown and financial”, he continued, on the eve of the decision of the S&P rating agency on France’s debt.

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Budget: Antoine Armand says he is ready to make “concessions” to avoid a “storm” for France

The Minister of Economy and Finance, Antoine Armand, said this Thursday morning that he was willing to make “concessions” on budgetary texts, in particular concerning the tax on electricity, in order to avoid the economic “storm”. and financial that according to him the fall of the government without a budget would result.

“Whatever differences in values ​​we have, we are today faced with an extremely serious situation for the country. The Prime Minister spoke of a storm. This is not a word chosen at random, it is a word that has financial, economic and budgetary resonance, and we are obviously ready to make concessions to avoid this storm,” he declared on BFMTV/RMC.

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