Almost a month after his appointment to Matignon, it is D-day for Michel Barnier, who will present this Tuesday, October 1 at 3 p.m. before the National Assembly his roadmap, of which he has so far delivered nothing. But he will not seek a vote of confidence from the deputies, like his predecessors Elisabeth Borne and Gabriel Attal, deprived like him of an absolute majority.
Information to remember
⇒ Barnier will deliver his general policy declaration at 3:00 p.m.
⇒ A Council of Ministers at the Elysée this morning
⇒ LR will accept “temporary” tax increases
10:25 a.m.
Retailleau regrets “false debates” on the rule of law
They aroused criticism even from the presidential bloc: the Minister of the Interior regretted this Tuesday that his remarks on the rule of law had been “instrumentalized by false debates” and considered that the rule of law was at stake. “foundation of our Republic”. In The Sunday JournalBruno Retailleau had judged that the rule of law was “not intangible nor sacred”, a position criticized by several personalities, including the President of the Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet and the former Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne . “The subject of the protection and security of the French is too serious and too serious to be exploited by false debates,” reacted this Tuesday the new tenant of Place Beauvau. “We must face reality, we owe it to the French as Michel Barnier reminded us: today, the law does not sufficiently protect the French,” he added in a press release, also assuring: “Good “I am sure that there cannot be democracy without the rule of law, without public authorities respecting law and freedoms.”
10:00 a.m.
The NFP will table a motion of censure “next week”
Guest on TF1 this morning, Olivier Faure confirmed that the New Popular Front would file a motion of censure against the Barnier government. The first secretary of the Socialist Party denounced “a democratic hold-up which allowed Michel Barnier, from a party which received less than 6% in the legislative elections, to be today at the head of this government”.
09:40
LR will accept “temporary” tax increases in exchange for “massive” savings
The right will accept “temporary, exceptional and fair” tax increases in return for “massive savings”, announced this morning the leader of the Les Républicains (LR) deputies Laurent Wauquiez, who denounced a “catastrophic” legacy. of previous governments.
“Is there a real effort being made on spending and is what is being asked for on taxes temporary, exceptional and fair? If so, we will support. If it is no, we will contribute” to improving the 2025 budget, declared Laurent Wauquiez on RTL. The priority must “first and foremost focus on the fight against the waste of public money”, he insisted, emphasizing the intention of his group to “put on the table avenues to make 30 billion savings.”
Faced with a deficit which could exceed 6% of GDP this year, far from the 3% set by Brussels, Michel Barnier should announce in his general policy declaration, at the same time as spending reductions, an increase in certain taxes on large businesses and the richest.
09:00
The CGT puts pressure on Barnier
More than 180 demonstrations are planned today in France at the call of the CGT, the FSU and Solidaires to demand in particular the repeal of the pension reform and an increase in salaries, at a time when the Prime Minister will reveal his priorities during its general policy statement.
Received at Matignon, the unions demanded the abandonment of the unemployment insurance reform, new negotiations on the employment of seniors, the repeal of the pension reform and an increase in wages. During their discussions with them, Michel Barnier showed himself to listen to the unions, but did not reveal his intentions. “It was he who chose this date (for his general policy speech, editor’s note), I hope that it is to better respond to social demands,” noted Sophie Binet this Tuesday morning on LCI.
08:40
Council of Ministers at the Elysée
Michel Barnier’s speech to the Assembly will have been preceded this morning by a Council of Ministers at the Elysée around Emmanuel Macron, whose report will now take place in premises in Matignon and no longer at the presidential palace, marking a new form of distance between the two heads of the executive. This decision is the result of “a mutual agreement” between the two heads of the executive and “illustrates the new institutional balance”, explained Matignon, who refutes the idea of ”cohabitation” between the two men. With this new organization, the Prime Minister “will report on his action autonomously”.
08:30
D-day for Michel Barnier
The Prime Minister will deliver his general policy declaration (DPG) this Tuesday at 3:00 p.m. before the National Assembly. The number two in the government, the Minister of Justice Didier Migaud, will read it to the senators at the same time. Michel Barnier should speak for about an hour, according to his entourage, and insist on two demands, “financial debt and ecological debt”. To prepare his roadmap, he received union and employer forces last week. He also organized a government seminar, which mainly aimed to develop team spirit after several hiccups between his ministers.
Barnier will speak “cautiously”, in accordance with his method of the “mountain man” who advances “step by step”, predicts an ally, because he has “many adversaries hiding in the shadows”. In fact, the new head of government will not seek a vote of confidence from the deputies, like his predecessors Elisabeth Borne and Gabriel Attal, who like him did not have an absolute majority.