The President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, on Tuesday refuted any “foretold catastrophe” if France failed to adopt a budget for 2025 due to government censorship.
“I hear everything and often anything (…) Our texts are well done, our Constitution and our rules are there, so no disaster predicted, no American-style “shutdown” (…) There is no disaster scenario,” declared Ms. Braun-Pivet, guest on Sud Radio.
“The government can present to Parliament what is called a special law to collect taxes from January 1, there can be renewal of expenditure by decree to be able to pay civil servants, retirees, etc.,” he said. she detailed.
Government spokesperson Maud Bregeon said in particular that she feared a financial crisis and “a Greek scenario”, in which civil servants would not be paid in January.
“It creates political instability and that must worry everyone, but we must not have too catastrophic a vision either,” replied the President of the Assembly. “I don’t want to worry our compatriots. We have solutions anyway, we are responsible,” she added.
“This way of taking the French for imbeciles is just unbearable and unacceptable,” added the political coordinator of La France insoumise Manuel Bompard on France Inter. “We must stop with these catastrophic speeches, in France, there is no “shutdown” like in the United States – where when the budget is not voted on, civil servants are in fact no longer paid -, he added.
“There is no risk of leading to a situation in which civil servants are not paid or public services no longer function (…). “It’s a pure and simple lie: the parliamentary calendar makes it entirely possible in this case to discuss and put in place another budget,” explained the MP for Bouche-du-Rhône.
While the budgetary discussion has largely passed the Senate and several joint committees – seven senators, seven deputies – will try to find compromises on the Social Security and State budgets and on execution for 2024, the The noose is tightening on the government which plans to use 49.3 to pass them and therefore expose itself to censorship.
The RN no longer hides its intention to vote on one of the motions of censure which will be tabled by the left if the three texts remain “as is” according to Marine Le Pen. With the deputies of the New Popular Front, the majority would be reached and the government of Michel Barnier overthrown.
The motion of censure is “a constitutional right which belongs to parliamentarians”, recalled Yaël Braun-Pivet, concerned that “everyone puts themselves in a constructive position for the good of our country”.
