Criticized from all sides for having chosen to go to Pau in the middle of the crisis in Mayotte, François Bayrou promised Tuesday in front of the deputies not to leave any challenge “unanswered”, but without advancing on his solutions while waiting to form a government “in a few days.” After seeing Emmanuel Macron twice yesterday, the new Prime Minister notably has a meeting this Wednesday, December 18 with Eric Ciotti, ex-boss of LR who is now an ally of Marine Le Pen. In an interview with Parisianthe latter says she is preparing for an early presidential election: “Emmanuel Macron, it’s over or almost,” she judges.
Information to remember:
⇒ François Bayrou continues his consultations with a view to forming his government
⇒ The Prime Minister is criticized for choosing to go to Pau in the middle of the crisis in Mayotte
⇒ For Marine Le Pen, “Emmanuel Macron, it’s over or almost”
07:30
The “special law” submitted to the Senate
The “special law”, a budgetary palliative submitted urgently after the censorship of the Barnier government, enters its final stretch in Parliament on Wednesday with a vote without suspense expected in the Senate, a prelude to a much less consensual discussion on the budget at the start of year.
Pending the constitution of a full-fledged government around François Bayrou and above all a real budget for the year 2025, Parliament is responding to the most pressing needs with this atypical bill, which authorizes the executive to collect taxes and borrow to finance the State and Social Security. The National Assembly adopted it unanimously on Monday and the Senate is preparing to do the same, from 2:30 p.m. in the hemicycle. Unless there is a huge surprise, he will approve it without modifying it, which will put an end to its parliamentary journey and allow its promulgation at the last minute before December 31.
“This special law gives everything the State needs to ensure its essential functions at the beginning of 2025, but nothing more. It must be supplemented as quickly as possible” by a budget, estimated the general rapporteur of the Budget in the Senate, Jean-François Husson (Les Républicains).
The left, a minority in the Senate, would have liked to index the income tax scale to inflation – a proposal also made by the oppositions in the National Assembly -, but as at the Palais Bourbon, the amendments in this direction were been declared inadmissible due to the very restricted scope of this “special law”, reduced to budgetary emergencies.
07:15
For Marine Le Pen, “Emmanuel Macron, it’s over or almost”
The head of the National Rally deputies Marine Le Pen mocked Tuesday “the fragility of Emmanuel Macron”, which she believes is “finished or almost”, saying in this sense to prepare for “an early presidential election, as a precaution”, in an interview At Parisian. “Emmanuel Macron, it’s over or almost. My words are not intended to be cruel, it’s an institutional reality,” declared Marine Le Pen.
The three-time candidate for the presidential election illustrated her point by returning to the appointment of François Bayrou to Matignon, at the cost of a standoff between the centrist and the head of state. “A domestic scene,” she quipped. According to her, Emmanuel Macron “has even lost his power to appoint the Prime Minister, who appointed himself. He does not have much left,” she continued, estimating that the head of the State had even “lost control everywhere internationally, he got angry with everyone”.
Like the Insoumis leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon who is calling for it, Marine Le Pen said she was preparing for “an early presidential election, as a precaution, given the fragility of Emmanuel Macron, the few institutional levers what he has left.” “His situation is very fragile,” she insisted.
07:05
François Bayrou will go to Mayotte as soon as his government is formed
Under fire for having favored the municipal council of Pau on Monday evening in the midst of the Mayotte crisis, the new Prime Minister will go to Mayotte as soon as “(s) the government is formed”, in order to “mobilize all the means of the “State”, he said last night on France 2. “I have never seen a disaster of this magnitude on national soil. I am thinking of the children who saw their houses blown up, whose schools were almost destroyed. all destroyed and whose parents are madly distressed,” he declared during a special program devoted to the crisis in the archipelago, devastated by a cyclone. Emmanuel Macron, who announced on Monday that he would go there in the coming days, “will be in Mayotte on Thursday”, the Elysée announced Tuesday evening.
07:00
The Prime Minister continues his consultations
François Bayrou went to the Élysée last night for the second time that day to discuss the composition of the government with Emmanuel Macron. “I hope that we will succeed in moving quickly” and finalizing the government “in a few days”, affirmed the Prime Minister in front of the National Assembly in the middle of the afternoon. His intention is to present a tight team of around 25 ministers with personalities from the left, center and right, according to parliamentary sources, before delivering his general policy declaration to Parliament on January 14.
After having notably received the Ecologists and the Communists on Tuesday in Matignon, François Bayrou will receive this Wednesday the president of the radical party, Nathalie Delattre, and the former president of the Republicans and current boss of the Union of Rights for the Republic, Eric Ciotti.