there will not be “anticipated disaster” if France fails to approve a budget for 2025 due to government censorship, the president of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, defended in turn on Tuesday, November 26 on Sud Radio. “I listen to everything and often anything. (…) Our texts are well done, our Constitution and our rules are there, so no disaster or American-style shutdown is predicted. (…) “There is no worst case scenario.”assured M.me Braun-Pivet.
“The government can present to Parliament what is called a special law to collect taxes of 1Ahem In January there may be renewal of expenses by decree to be able to pay officials, retirees, etc. »he detailed. Government spokesperson Maud Bregeon stated in particular that she feared a financial crisis and “a greek setting”in which officials would not be paid in January.
“It creates political instability and that should worry everyone, but we should not have a too catastrophic vision either”responded the president of the Assembly. “I don’t want to worry our compatriots. We have solutions anyway, we are responsible”he added.
“The real risk for democracy is not closure”
The president of the deputies of the National Assembly (RN) in the Assembly, Marine Le Pen, accused, in a column published by The Figaro On Tuesday, the government will broadcast “fake news” on the hypothetical non-payment of officials. “There is no risk of closure in our institutions (…) contrary to what some members of the government affirm in unison”assures the extreme right representative.
“The real risk to democracy is not the closure: it is fake news [fausses informations] ! »duck. “We will not allow the National Group to become the scapegoat for the incompetence of leaders incapable of debating and reaching agreements”also writes Mme Le Pen, ensuring that “propose [et] documented, line by line » TO “equilibrium scenario”but that “the focus is not[vait] was followed by no effect ».
on your side, The political coordinator of La France Insoumise (LFI), Manuel Bompard, spoke on France Inter, believing that “This way of taking the French for imbeciles is simply unbearable and unacceptable”. “We must put an end to these catastrophic speeches, in France there is no closure” like in the United States, he added. “There is no risk of [parvenir] to a situation in which public officials are not paid or public services stop functioning (…). It is a pure and simple lie: the parliamentary calendar perfectly allows, in this case, to discuss and implement another budget.”developed by the Boca-du-Rhône deputy.
Although the budget debate has been widely approved in the Senate and several mixed commissions (composed of seven senators and seven deputies) will try to find compromises on the Social Security and State budgets and on the execution for 2024, the bond is becoming closer on the government, which plans to use article 49.3 of the Constitution to approve them and, therefore, expose itself to censorship.
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The RN no longer hides its intention to vote on one of the motions of censure that the left will present if the three budget texts are maintained “as is”, according to Marine Le Pen. With the deputies of the New Popular Front the majority would be achieved and the government of Michel Barnier would be overthrown. The motion of censure is “a constitutional right that belongs to parliamentarians”recalled Yaël Braun-Pivet, worried that “Everyone puts themselves in a constructive position for the good of our country”.
