Prime Minister Michel Barnier will send “a letter” on the draft budget to the Assembly’s finance committee “during the day”, while its president Eric Coquerel has threatened to go and collect it personally from Matignon. An initial communication wrongly referred to the letters on the ceiling.
The Prime Minister’s services specify that the submission to the National Assembly of draft budget October 9 instead of October 1 is a “considered track”. Prime Minister Michel Barnier “held discussions” on this subject with Eric Coquerel, the same source added.
The LFI deputy, however, considered it “problematic” for the AFP to go beyond October 1. Respecting this date is, for him, “a question of principles and time for debate.”
“The longer they delay (presenting the budget), the more the parliamentary debate risks being limited,” stressed Eric Coquerel, recalling that the organic law provides for the presentation of the draft budget on the first Tuesday in October, i.e. on October 1.
“Problematic”
Eric Coquerel threatened to go to Matignon in person on Tuesday, accompanied by the general rapporteur of the Budget, MP Liot Charles de Courson, to demand the ceiling cards.
The two representatives of the Finance Committee have the right to inspect the budget documents on site and in the documents.
This request was made “on behalf of the Assembly, on behalf of the representatives of the people, of my commission” which includes “deputies who support this government,” he said.
Source: BFM TV
