Michel Barnier declared in Western FranceThursday, November 14, who will participate ” probably “ the responsibility of his government over the budget by activating article 49.3 of the Constitution, which allows the adoption of the text without a vote.
“When I see what happened in the Assembly”where his right-wing and centrist supporters rejected the draft budget for 2025, profoundly modified by the left, “It seems difficult to do anything else at the end of the discussion”the Prime Minister stated in an interview with the regional newspaper published online on Thursday evening. “But you will notice that we have chosen to let the debate develop there”he added.
Although 49.3 may be followed by the presentation of a motion of censure, consider that “the French don’t want it” the overthrow of the government. “What I hear most is “cheer up, hang in there.” Believe me, I don’t miss it.”duck.
In this draft budget, the head of Government promises “Significant adjustments” in favor of the communities. The departments, to which he will speak on Friday morning in Angers, asked the government to review its budget copy, which they consider to be threatening to them. “of suffocation”.
The Prime Minister also assures that “not recreate” a housing tax, which had been abolished by Emmanuel Macron and whose return some mayors demand, nor “create new taxes” local, while the Minister of Partnership with the Territories, Catherine Vautrin, said that “open to a debate on local taxation”.
Michel Barnier shows himself “very reserved” about the idea of eliminating a holiday to fill the coffers of Social Security. “I am very reserved about this idea, which is complex to implement and I am not sure that it will give results as some claim”. “What is at stake is that there are more French people working”he adds, advocating in favor of “social dialogue”.
Establishment of a “working group” on social plans
In terms of education, another priority file of the government, states that “do not share” Nicolas Sarkozy’s recent comments about school teachers who, according to the former president, only work “six months a year”. “School teachers, who take care of an entire class alone from morning to afternoon, do difficult and essential work”underlines.
Faced with the multiplication, feared by the government, of social plans in companies, he announced that his government will launch a “working group” between “to all interested ministers (labor, industry, finance, budget, etc.) to provide quick responses to each particular situation”.
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The government is also “ask all companies that have received public money in recent years, particularly to overcome Covid and the costly energy crises, to tell us what they have done with it”adds Michel Barnier. He describes his relations with the President of the Republic as “simple and fluid” and does not exclude “hold decentralized meetings” of the government.
