Marine Le Pen did not seem willing on Friday to give up censoring the government next week.
AFP
Despite Michel Barnier’s concessions, particularly on electricity, Marine Le Pen did not seem willing on Friday to give up censoring the government next week, multiplying warnings aimed at a Prime Minister whom she accuses of ” precipitate the financial crisis.
In a message posted on by structural economies” and “aggravate an already abysmal deficit”.
“As it stands, Mr. Barnier’s budget will precipitate the financial crisis generated by seven years of macronism, of which business failures, rising unemployment and tensions on the financial markets are only the beginnings,” adds -she.
A message which risks making Matignon cough insofar as these announcements – in particular that on taxes on electricity which represents a shortfall of 3.4 billion euros – were made to respond in part to the “lines red” of the RN.
Red lines which also include the cancellation of the partial de-indexation of pensions to inflation – three billion savings – on January 1 and the de-reimbursement of medicines. With an ultimatum set by Marine Le Pen “until Monday” for the Prime Minister to respond.
The government can in fact amend its draft budget for Social Security until Monday if it submits it that day to 49.3 – adoption without a vote – as it has so far announced its intention, due to lack of a majority in the National Assembly.
In which case the left would table a motion of censure, which could be debated and possibly supported by the RN from Wednesday.
“We are not in the idea of giving Michel Barnier a gift,” insisted on France info the vice-president of the RN Sébastien Chenu, who would vote for censorship today because the concessions “are DIY”.
As for the financing of the RN’s red lines, Mr. Chenu lists pell-mell a tax on surplus profits, share buybacks, a reduction in development aid, a reduction in medical aid for undocumented immigrants – promised also Thursday by Michel Barnier – or even a reduction in the French contribution to the EU budget.
And to assure that “France will not find itself in an economic impasse” if it does not have a budget and if interest rates soar.
“If our lenders become too expensive, the ECB will take over,” he assured, in an unexpected tribute to the Frankfurt institution from this party.
“For a compromise, it takes two”
On the government side, the ultimatum set by Marine Le Pen, despite the “major step” on electricity, makes government spokesperson Maud Bregeon doubt the true intentions of the RN leader because “to find compromise, it takes two.”
“Do Madame Le Pen and the National Rally really want to allocate a budget to France? “, she asked herself on France 2.
If she indicated, without further details, that Michel Barnier’s announcements would be “compensated in one way or another by reducing spending”, she suggested that the government would not go further in renouncing .
“We will end this year with a 6.1% deficit. We will be at 7% next year if we do nothing. This would constitute a decline from which France would take years to recover. Our objective is always to return to around 5%,” she assured.
So censorship or not, bets remain open in the Assembly. “Our RN colleagues, we feel that they are ‘hot’ about censorship,” testifies an LR MP. “At the RN, they are irrational. Marine Le Pen, given her legal situation, we cannot know how she will behave,” analyzes a Macronist, in allusion to the trial of the RN parliamentary assistants.
For LFI coordinator Manuel Bompard, “Mr Barnier will fall. Even though he makes gestures, Madame Le Pen continues to put red lines. So if Madame Le Pen and the RN deputies do not censor the government, they will have betrayed the French again,” he predicted on BFMTV/RMC.
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