Michel Barnier delivers his general policy declaration to the National Assembly this Tuesday, October 1, in the afternoon. At the same time the Minister of Justice, Didier Migaud, will read it before the Senate. This is the moment of truth for the new Prime Minister. Michel Barnier will give the orientations of the policy he intends to pursue in front of a Chamber far from being won over to his cause.
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Michel Barnier will face the cauldron of the Hemicycle, a minefield for a Prime Minister without a majority that everyone expects around the corner. The left wants to make her pay for taking the place she wanted Lucie Castets to occupy and has already promised her censorship. THE National gathering (RN) gives him hope of not bringing down his government but expects pledges, particularly on immigration.
Disagreements in the common base »
And, in what the Prime Minister calls his “ common base », the Republican right and the parties of the central bloc, the support is not unconditional, far from it. The Modem is in deep disagreement with the right-wing line embodied by the arrival of Bruno Retailleau at Place Beauvau and is awaiting progress on proportional representation. Renaissance has set red lines, particularly on tax increases or the elimination of state medical aid for undocumented immigrants.
What savings, what tax increases and for whom?
Facing the deputies, Michel Barnier will therefore engage in a stylistic exercise to try to impose his personality and his authority and in a political act by giving his decisions and his calendar, particularly on the most burning subject, that of the budget. What savings, what tax increases and for whom? Objective: not to be unanimous against him. The exercise on October 1 is so perilous that Michel Barnier decided not to seek a vote of confidence following his declaration of policy general.
For the French Prime Minister, the pressure is also in the streets. This October 1, at the call of the CGT, Solidaires and FSU, a major day of demonstrations is taking place throughout France. The demonstrators are demanding, among other things, the repeal of the pension reform and wage increases.
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