Faced with threats of censorship from the left and the extreme right, Michel Barnier estimated this Thursday, November 21, that the French want “stability, serenity.”
“The time ahead of me depends on a possible coalition of opposites, if I may say so, in the National Assembly. I don’t know if that will happen. I am prepared for it,” declared the Prime Minister before the 106th Congress of Mayors.
Before adding: “I know that this is not what the French want, who today want stability and serenity.”
This “stability” was also desired by Emmanuel Macron this Wednesday. “It is normal that there are parliamentary debates. I believe that the government, methodically, will continue with the forces of the common base that today constitute this relative majority and with the opposition to move forward,” he declared to the press after the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro. Janeiro.
“I want stability. Our country needs to continue moving forward,” he pleaded.
The RN was inclined to vote on a motion of censure
In fact, the New Popular Front made it known this Thursday in a column published in Le Monde that it wanted to re-present a motion of censure if Michel Barnier approved the budget with 49.3. A hypothesis publicly considered by Matignon’s tenant.
Thus, from Manuel Bompard to Olivier Faure, passing through Fabien Roussel, Marine Tondelier and the leftist union candidate in MatignonLucie Castets, threaten the Prime Minister with overthrowing him in the coming weeks.
“If Michel Barnier imposes his budget by 49.3, our parliamentary groups will present a motion of censure,” reads the Le Monde Tribune.
This motion of censure could also be voted on by the National Group. The president of the RN deputies stated that she “I would vote for censure” if “the purchasing power of the French was reduced even further”.
Enough to make the overthrow of Michel Barnier’s government completely credible. To achieve this, we must gather 289 votes, the support of half of the forces in the chamber. The left and its 193 deputies, as well as Marine Le Pen and its 126 deputies, gathered 320 votes, more than enough to overthrow the current government.
Barnier’s fiscal measures challenged by Macronists
Michel Barnier is also weakened within his government by Macronists who question his fiscal measures. Given this, the Prime Minister considered that there was “a common interest more important than our own interests in working together”, adding, in reference to the Minister of Economy, Antoine Armand, that “when we are loyal (…) we have more possibilities of face adversity.”
The Bercy tenant unleashed a mini-storm by opposing the Prime Minister to the elimination of reductions in corporate contributions, even reduced from four to three billion euros by the Senate. They bother Gabriel Attal, leader of the Macronist deputies, for whom they are against the sustained supply policy since 2017.
Beyond the budget, a “particularly difficult moment”, Michel Barnier wanted to raise “the horizon” and promised to present at the beginning of next year “some fifty” measures that will be “put into motion” within three years. “I am not alone here in Matignon to manage, with the Government, on the defensive, with its back to the wall, a difficult budget and make frenetic savings,” he explained.
Source: BFM TV
