The 49.3 for an “exit of the crisis”: François Bayrou will shorte this Monday, February 3, the debates in the National Assembly this Monday, February 3 to “move on to the adoption” of the state budget and, quickly, that of Social Security. In an interview at La Tribune on Sundaythe Prime Minister announces that he will make use of this constitutional weapon, which engages the responsibility of his government, on the conclusions of the joint joint committee on the draft state budget for 2025. A text still not adopted at the start From February, two months after the fall of the Barnier government.
After this compromise drawn up by the government coalition, accompanied by concessions to the Socialist Party in order to avoid censorship, “it is necessary to pass without delay to adoption. A country like ours cannot remain without budget”, insists François Bayrou . The government should keep “the text from the CMP”, according to Amélie de Montchalin, the Minister of the Budget.
The use of 49.3 – also quickly announced for the security budget, the examination of which also resumes this Monday at the Bourbon Palace – should inevitably lead to a censorship motion, promised by rebellious France and which should vote, no doubt on Wednesday , Communists and environmentalists.
After having avoided the fall of his government on his declaration of general policy, François Bayrou must thwart it on these budgetary texts to hope to last in Matignon. The RN and the PS have not yet made their intentions known. The looks are particularly on the socialists, with whom the government has been negotiating for several weeks. Censorship “would be rejected with anger by the French”. “These two parties [le RN et le PS, NDLR] know this as well as me, “warns the Prime Minister, for whom the French” do not want to go from destruction to destruction, live from censorship to censorship, from dissolution in dissolution “.
François Bayrou received support in this sense of a socialist predecessor, Lionel Jospin. “Voting censorship today, indeed, would not be responsible,” said the latter on France 5, addressing the PS “and even at all left forces”.
Eight “summits” of “Himalayas”
Despite the retouching to the copy initially presented by Michel Barnier, whose cost of which François Bayrou may be cost “perhaps around 5 billion”, the 2025 budget will keep the deficit to the announced figure of 5.4 % of GDP, first minister. The centrist received without enthusiastic support from the right, duly represented in the government but whose support for the assembly “decides text by text”, insisted in the JDD The boss of LR deputies, Laurent Wauquiez. The elected representative of Haute-Loire recalled to be “firmly opposed to new tax increases” and says he is impatient to see the executive “go from words to acts” in terms of security and immigration.
Already in campaign for a new dissolution that the RN deems inevitable, Jordan Bardella for his part pushed the idea of a referendum on immigration. Taking on the leap, during a meeting in front of some 3,000 people in Montélimar (Drôme), the expression of “submersion” migratory used this week by the Prime Minister.
How to govern over time without majority? After this “agreement” on the budget, “nothing could justify that we stop there”, pleads François Bayrou, who lists “eight peaks” of “Himalayas” to come: “National Education, Security And justice, overseas, production -whether industrial, agricultural, cultural -climate change, health, migratory question “. Without forgetting pensions, the subject of a conclave between social partners.
François Bayrou justified himself to have wanted to split into two texts the bill on end of life, “because there are two absolutely distinct questions”. “For the first, that of palliative care, I consider that our society has an imprescriptable duty”. While the second, “that of assistance to die”, “is a question of law, which can cause extremely heavy debates of conscience”. But “I have no intention to postpone the examination of these two texts” which “will be examined at the same time,” he said.