The opportunity to plead your case? Michel Barnier, whose government is threatened with censorship in the Assembly after the activation of 49.3 on the draft Social Security budget, will be the guest of France 2 and TF1 this Tuesday evening. He will answer questions from Anne-Sophie Lapix (France 2) and Gilles Bouleau (TF1) live from Matignon in the 8 p.m. news. The Prime Minister is awaiting inevitable censorship, after the filing this Monday, December 2, of two separate motions, one by LFI, the other by the RN. The first has every chance of being approved, the National Rally having announced that it would vote for it. The adoption by the National Assembly of such a motion would be a first since the overthrow of the government of Georges Pompidou in 1962. The Barnier government would then become the shortest in the history of the Fifth Republic.
Information to remember
⇒ Michel Barnier triggered 49.3 to adopt the Social Security budget
⇒ The RN and the NFP each filed a motion of censure against the Prime Minister
⇒ Motions of censure should be put to a vote on Wednesday or Thursday
08:20
The RN “was looking for a pretext”, judges the Minister of the Budget
Invited on RTL this Tuesday morning, Budget Minister Laurent Saint-Martin charged the National Rally, which according to him “was above all looking for a pretext to bring the country to the ground, to vote on a motion of censure that he had in mind since the beginning”. “It’s called irresponsibility,” he accused.
“Clearly, Madame Le Pen’s wish is not in the country’s interest,” added the Minister of Transport, François Durovray, on BFMTV, for whom the president of the RN group in the Assembly is “undoubtedly seeking to hide her legal situation and bring everyone up to the coconut tree.
07:55
For the Minister of the Economy, “it is the country that we are putting in danger”
“The deputies have the choice not to plunge the country into instability”, judged this morning on France 2 the Minister of the Economy Antoine Armand, the day after the tabling of two motions of censure intended to overthrow the government, before to worry: “We have done our utmost so that the political forces in Parliament can either support us or not censor this budget. Because it is not the budget that we are censoring, it is not the government that we censor behind, it is the country that we put in danger, it is the country that we damage,” he said.
“I say it without dramatizing, but I am not here to be relativist either. Because tomorrow, if interest rates increase, if the French are affected in their savings, if income tax increases ( …), who will be responsible? Who will pay the consequences? The French first,” continued the minister.
07:40
Michel Barnier at 8 p.m. on TF1 and France 2
The Prime Minister will be the guest of France 2 and TF1 this Tuesday evening, announced France Télévisions. He will answer questions from Anne-Sophie Lapix (France 2) and Gilles Bouleau (TF1) live from Matignon in the 8 p.m. news.
07:35
The censorship ax expected for Wednesday or Thursday
This Tuesday morning, the conference of presidents of the National Assembly should in all likelihood decide on the date – probably Wednesday or Thursday – of the debate and vote on the motions of censure tabled by the New Popular Front and the National Rally. According to the regulations of the National Assembly, a period of 48 hours is in fact provided between the tabling of a motion of censure and its vote by parliamentarians. To bring down the government, 288 deputies will have to vote for censure, a number well within the reach of an alliance of circumstances between the left and the RN.
07:30
Michel Barnier weakened like never before
The session of questions to the government scheduled for this afternoon in the Assembly promises to be tense, the day after Michel Barnier’s use of article 49.3 to forcefully pass on the Social Security Budget, and the announcement of the filing of two motions of censure. The Prime Minister is in an extremely fragile position. “The fall of Barnier is confirmed,” proclaimed yesterday the leader of the rebellious deputies Mathilde Panot. Appointed on September 5, he will have lasted three months thanks to the “support without participation of the RN” and, “what will bring him down is precisely that the RN will have stopped supporting him”, underlined the PS deputy Arthur Delaporte. The gestures announced by Michel Barnier to meet the demands of the flame party – notably on the reimbursement of medicines – will not have been enough: “We will vote for censorship”, said Marine Le Pen on Monday, for whom Michel Barnier “did not wish to respond to the demand of the 11 million voters” of his party.