The Prime Minister spares the goat and the cabbage. No removal of teachers for socialists, no new household tax for the right and the center. Always at the mercy of censorship, François Bayrou recalled Monday, January 27, several concessions made to the parties by calling them for “responsibility” to find a compromise on the budget. “I have confidence in the feeling of responsibility of all,” said the head of government on the LCI channel.
This interview comes as the debates resumed this Monday in committee on Monday at the Assembly on Social Security accounts, before a crucial meeting on Thursday, of seven senators and seven deputies in joint joint committee (CMP) to seek a compromise on the state budget. François Bayrou hopes to convince the PS again not to vote a censorship. In this regard, he confirmed the abandonment, claimed by the socialists, of the abolition of 4,000 teaching positions, a “definitive” decision. He also dismissed the hypothesis of 7 hours of unpaid work per year to finance social security, another irritant for the PS but also for certain macronists, because “the work must be paid”. “The work should not be free,” he insisted, saying, however, “ready to discuss” this “parliamentary proposal”.
“The account is not completely there, but we walk,” reacted the leader of socialist senators Patrick Kanner on the same channel. But the socialists “are not the only ones” to have requests, added François Bayrou, citing the right and the presidential camp. In this regard, if he confirmed an exceptional contribution on very high incomes and large companies, he also assured that households would pay “no new tax” in 2025. “On the other hand, there is something that We have to look closely, it is tax fraud or in any case tax abuses, the fact that we use a certain number of regulations not to pay taxes or to pay less Taxes that what we should pay, and especially when you have a lot of means, “he said.
The “feeling of a submersion”
On immigration, “a certain number of cities or regions” have “the feeling of a” submersion “, assured François Bayrou.” I think that foreign contributions are positive for a people, provided they do not Do not exceed a proportion, “he said.” But from the moment that you have the feeling of submersion, not to recognize your country, lifestyles or culture, from that moment you have rejected, “he added.” Extremely shocking “remarks for LFI Coordinator Manuel Bompard.” It doesn’t correspond to reality at all, “he said on LCI adding that people foreigners represented 7.7 % of the population in France according to INSEE.
Favorable to a restriction of soil law in Mayotte but not in mainland France, the head of government also poses as a compromise man. For him, his ministers, the very right -handed Bruno Retailleau (interior) who wants to harden the conditions of regularization of foreigners in France, and the Rocardian Eric Lombard (economy) for whom the country “needs work immigration”, have All “the two” reason.
However, François Bayrou closed the door to a referendum on immigration. This recurring request from the right and the extreme right had been relaunched at the end of December after Emmanuel Macron had mentioned in his wishes for 2025 the possibility of consulting the French, without more details. “Immigration cannot constitutionally, not even by preference, (…) being a subject of referendum,” said the Prime Minister.
A deficit “around 23 billion euros”
If “we have no budget, then none of the new decisions that have been announced can be completed,” said the latter again. He also promised that the organization of the State will be “redesigned in depth” and that the State was going to lose weight “necessarily”. Regarding the text on Social Security (PLFSS), whose first version had led to the fall of the Barnier government in early December, the discussions resumed this Monday from the version adopted by the Senate at the end of November.
But the terms of the equation have changed, with a 2025 deficit in the Social Security now anticipated at least 23 billion euros, against 16 billion mentioned in the fall. A slippage which is explained in particular by the forced abandonment of economy measures on pensions, and by the cost of certain concessions made to socialists on the budget of hospitals or on the reimbursement of medical consultations and medicines. After its examination in committee, the text must return to the hemicycle from February 3.
In addition, François Bayrou confirmed Monday wanting to split the bill on end of life, to distinguish the “two subjects” from palliative care and help to die, while more than 200 socialists and macronists had urged the Prime Minister not to do so. “Palliative care, for me it is not a right, it is a duty,” he said, qualifying the help of dying “conscience debate”.
On another subject, the Prime Minister also estimated that the trials of MEP assistants, who targeted the modem as the national rally, were based on “an unjust accusation” considering “very disturbing” to be judged without possibility of ‘Call, while Marine Le Pen is threatened with ineligibility from the end of March. As a reminder, the European Parliament, civil party, had assessed in 2018 its prejudice to 6.8 million euros for the years 2009 to 2017.