The National Rally (RN) wants to prepare people’s minds for a (very) imminent government censorship that they would not do otherwise. The far-right party is intensifying communications operations to downplay the financial consequences of a possible fall of Prime Minister Michel Barnier’s team.
The day after the column by the president of the RN group in the National Assembly, Marine Le Pen, published in The Figaro, against him “fake news” proclaiming it “Risk of an American-style “shutdown” [la fermeture des administrations] in case of budget censorship”, Jean-Philippe Tanguy called a press conference on Wednesday, November 27 to support this message. While the government warns of the risk of financial crisis, with a “a greek setting”denounced the deputy (RN) of the Somme “state lies”seeing in the executive’s warnings “a vain attempt at communication to destabilize the normal path of democracy”.
And if his intervention were not enough to demonetize the “machiavellian operetta” of his opponents, the economic reference of the RN distributed a seventeen-page note titled “The Vmy The Republic guarantees France’s budgetary stability in the event of government censorship. » Compile legal texts, hypotheses and “Historical points”This document aims to demonstrate that censorship would not affect in any way the “fiscal stability” of the country and would be “no impact” on public services, the salaries of public officials or the payment of social benefits. What happens to a government that resigns? “The RN, of course, will vote for the special bill that authorizes the collection of existing taxes”writes, with the code, M. Tanguy.
Although the far-right party has not officially decided whether it will vote in favor of a motion of censure – in unison with the left – against the Government, it is already trying to discredit the accusations – of political and financial irresponsibility – of the executive against it. . Enough to fuel the hypothesis of a quick sanction. Possibly from Michel Barnier’s first recourse to article 49.3 of the Constitution (which allows the adoption of a text without a vote), scheduled for Monday, December 2, for the National Assembly to approve the Social Security financing bill ( PLFSS).
Without waiting for the return to the deputies, at the end of the month, of the finance bill (PLF), necessary for the complete examination by the lepenists of the “final copy” executive budget? “A policy of exhaustion of deadlines [de négociations avec le gouvernement] “It would be the worst policy.”warns Jean-Philippe Tanguy, considering that, in the absence of any concession on the part of Matignon in favor of the RN, “better to censor immediately”. “That leaves three weeks between now and the end of the year to turn around [et réviser la copie d’ici à 2025]justifies the deputy for the Somme. It is a question of rationality. »
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