Monday October 21, the examination of the budget begins in the National Assembly. MEPs will look at the part “ recipes » from a state budget to 60 billion savings. But the flagship measures will come up against a wall of opposition, even some support from Michel Barnier, the current Prime Minister. Its very young government therefore plays a big role in the hemicycle.
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The start of the debates at 9:30 p.m., Monday October 21, will launch in earnest the most important weeks of the very young Barnier government, with the examination of the 2025 budget. In an interview given the day before JSunday newspaper, Michel Barnier claims to have chosen his line: “We are betting on letting the discussion take place in the National Assembly “, he said. A way of implying that he does not plan to quickly end the debates, believes our political journalist, Valérie Gas. But this does not mean that he will be able to avoid resorting to article 49.3 of the Constitution, in the event of a blockage.
Motion to reject LFI
Insoumis president of the finance committee Éric Coquerel has already announced that the LFI group would present a motion for prior rejection of the text. “ We know it won’t pass, we don’t want it to pass “, but ” it’s not too much to explain why this budget is bad », Exposed Éric Coquerel on French radio RTL, a few hours before the budget review kicks off in the hemicycle. The National Rally having already announced that its deputies would not vote for it, this motion for prior rejection has very little chance of succeeding.
“We want to push the government either to accept its defeat because we will win in the end, or to put a 49-3 which will allow us to make a motion of censure and we will see what the RN does in this case », continued the president of the finance committee.
For his part, the president of the RN Jordan Bardella continued to raise the threat of a vote of no confidence against the government on the 2025 budget “ if red lines were crossed “. On Europe 1 and Cnews, the ultra-conservative channels of the Vivendi group, in the hands of the businessman Vincent Bolloré, Jordan Bardella blasted a budget “ without direction or consistency “.
Reduce the deficit
There is therefore first of all a methodological issue for Michel Barnier who, since his appointment, has affirmed that he is open to dialogue and welcomes good ideas. He must now demonstrate this, taking into account the previous budgetary debate where Elisabeth Borne was criticized for her numerous uses of 49.3, reports our journalist Valérie Gas.
The Prime Minister is thus under a double constraint: not to appear brutal while not giving in on the balance of the text between tax increases and reduction in spending to reduce deficits. This is indeed its priority objective in the face of uncompromising opposition and with a divided government bloc, writes our journalist Valérie Gas.
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