Decisive week for the Barnier government. The National Assembly decides this Monday at 3:00 p.m. on the final reading on the Social Security budget, resulting from a compromise between a committee of senators and deputies. In the absence of a majority, the government should announce its use of 49.3 to try to have its text adopted without a vote. And the National Rally will vote on a motion of censure with the left to bring down the government, “except obviously, a last minute miracle”, revealed Jordan Bardella. If the left and the National Rally, the first group in the Assembly, unite their voices, the government will fall. This would be a first since the fall of Georges Pompidou’s government in 1962. Barnier’s government would then become the shortest in the history of the Fifth Republic.
Information to remember
⇒ The National Assembly votes this Monday on the Social Security budget
⇒ The RN will vote to censure the government, announces Jordan Bardella
⇒ The government “remains open to dialogue but it takes two”, assures the government spokesperson
The RN will vote to censure the government, announces Jordan Bardella
End of suspense: the National Rally will vote this week to censure the government, in the event of recourse to 49.3 on Monday on the Social Security budget, barring a “last minute miracle”, party president Jordan Bardella announced on RTL. “Yes, it’s folded […] I am forced today to announce the censorship of the government”, he added. The National Rally will vote on a motion of censure with the left to bring down the government, “unless obviously, a last minute miracle, if Michel Barnier was going to review his copy by 3:00 p.m. But I have little hope that he will be touched by pardon,” said the far-right politician.
For his part, RN deputy Sébastien Chenu declared on RMC/BFMTV that there would need to be “a change of political line” from Michel Barnier, to avoid the vote on a motion of censure likely to bring down the government. The elected official wants the Prime Minister to simply take up “the RN’s proposals” on the budget. The compromises already made by the government “are a sleight of hand”, he judges. Furthermore, Sébastien Chenu assured that the RN’s motion of censure was “ready and signed”, even before 49.3 was used.
The government “remains open to dialogue but it takes two”, assures the spokesperson of the executive
The government remains “open to dialogue” with the RN but to find a compromise, “it takes two”, declared this Monday the spokesperson for the executive, suggesting that the latter could evolve on the dereimbursement of medicines, one of the red lines of the RN. According to her, the executive “reached out” without being “sectarian”.
Then Maud Bregeon sounded the alarm. “The best interest of the country is that this country has a budget and does not sink into uncertainty,” she insisted on Europe1/CNews, warning that “every deputy” from the left or from the RN voting censorship “will have to be held accountable in its constituency”. Furthermore, the spokesperson estimated that the socialists had an “immense responsibility for what will happen in the coming hours or days”.
Michel Barnier will bring together those responsible for his majority
Michel Barnier will bring together the group presidents of his majority in the Assembly and the Senate this Monday at 1:45 p.m. facing the risk of censorship from the government this week, we learned from several of them. The “common base” which supports the government brings together the Macronists, Modem, Horizons and LR.
The Prime Minister will have to confirm to them whether he engages the responsibility of his government to have the draft Social Security budget examined in final reading in the Assembly on Monday at 3 p.m. adopted without a vote by 49.3. If he uses 49.3, the left will table a motion of censure which would be examined on Wednesday or Thursday.
Roland Lescure, Ensemble pour la République deputy and vice-president of the National Assembly, expressed his concern this morning on franceinfo: “We know that the vote on the Social Security budget is risky. We are really in the home stretch. ” For the elected official, the outcome of this week is in the hands of Marine Le Pen, whom he compares to a “Roman emperor” who “plays roulette”.
The PS wants to file a motion for prior rejection
The socialist group intends to table a motion for rejection prior to the PLFSS. If this were adopted, the text would resume its shuttle between the Assembly and the Senate, and Michel Barnier would in fact benefit from a slight reprieve. “We are starting again with a new reading and therefore with the possibility of negotiations,” argued PS deputy Jérôme Guedj on BFMTV on Sunday. However, the president of the socialist group, Boris Vallaud, told AFP, the government can draw out 49.3 at any time, even once the motion has been adopted.
The Confederation of SMEs is concerned about censorship
The Confederation of Small and Medium Enterprises (CPME) is concerned about government censorship which could occur this week and thus “increase (the) difficulties” of businesses, it said in a press release on Monday. “Don’t sacrifice our businesses on the altar of your ambitions!” launches the CPME to the deputies, believing that government censorship would “only increase our difficulties”.
The CPME deplores “the dramatic drift in public accounts, never controlled for years” and fears a France without a budget which “would open the door to a debt crisis whose consequences would hit economic players hard”. “Leaving our country without a solution would be irresponsible” and “our companies would be the first victims” of the situation, the confederation still judges.