The president of the National Rally group in the Assembly, Marine Le Pen, accuses the Government in a column this Tuesday of spreading “false information” about the risk that civil servants will not be paid and public services will be blocked if France is not successful. have a budget on time for 2025.
“There is no risk of ‘closure’ of our institutions (…) contrary to what some members of the Government affirm in unison,” says the far-right representative in Le Figaro, referring to the American situation where federal officials do not They are paid until a budget is approved.
“Even in the event of censure, taxes would be raised, civil servants would be paid, pensions would be paid and medical care would be reimbursed,” he adds, while his party threatens to vote on the motion of censure that the left will present if the Government uses 49.3. approve without a vote their state budget and social security projects.
“It would be enough for the censured government to vote, in the current context, for a special law that would at least allow the 2024 budget to be renewed, pending a new government and a formal finance law,” specifies Marine Le Pen, acknowledging however “a provisional measure”. “The real risk to democracy is not the ‘closure’: it is fake news!” he adds.
“Greek scene”
Several figures in Michel Barnier’s coalition have warned in recent days of the risk of a financial crisis caused by a fall of the Government without prior approval of a budget. Government spokesperson Maud Bregeon said on Sunday that she feared “a Greek scenario.” “If a motion of censure were approved tomorrow, it would be a regime crisis, a financial crisis that would throw France into the abyss, especially the weakest,” also estimated the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau.
The day after her first formal meeting with Michel Barnier in Matignon, from which she came away empty-handed, Marine Le Pen also recalls that “the very objective of voting on a budget is the democratic expression of a political project.” However, according to her, the government’s budget project does not correspond to the “clear choice in fiscal, security and migration matters” of the “eleven million RN voters.”
He criticizes “the lies” of previous governments about the situation of public finances, “even if that means misinformation posing non-existent political risks”, during the European and legislative electoral campaigns, and rejects his party becoming a “scapegoat” if you vote for censure.
Source: BFM TV
