The National Rally will “vote against” the 2025 finance bill, said Jean-Philippe Tanguy, budget leader of the RN group in the National Assembly.
The Somme deputy believes he has not received “any response” from the Prime Minister regarding the “concrete proposals” of the National Rally, as he explained this Sunday, October 27, on France 3.
The deputies debated the revenue part of the 2025 budget from Monday to Saturday, without having concluded the examination of the text, which will resume on Tuesday, November 5.
Jean-Philippe Tanguy recalled his group’s opposition to an increase in the electricity tax beyond its pre-Covid level, which was withdrawn on Friday by deputies, but which the government “will certainly reinstate”.
Barnier, “Machiavellian personality”
Asked about the possibility of the Government using article 49.3 of the Constitution, which allows the adoption of a text without a vote, he observed that Prime Minister Michel Barnier could use “another more perfidious, more Machiavellian method”, consisting of “letting the debates prolong, exhausting Parliament”, using article 47 of the Constitution.
This article states that if the Assembly cannot decide in first reading on a finance bill after 40 days (i.e. November 21), the government will refer the matter to the Senate.
“Underneath his appearance as a wise man, as a calm person, there is a Machiavellian personality that we discover in reality, since he knows very well what he is doing, and this would be the first time in the history of the Fifth Republic that he voluntarily exhausted the deadlines and that we exhaust Parliament without saying anything,” he attacked.
Source: BFM TV
