Sébastien Chenu sees it as a “hands game”, of which “no one is deceived.” The deputy of the National Rally, guest of BFMTV-RMC this Monday, May 5, is against a referendum about a “general plan” of deficit reduction, an advanced idea this weekend by Prime Minister François Bayrou.
The latter “seeks to save time and” last more than changing things “, accuses Sébastien Chenu, while the threat of censorship is perpetual in this National Assembly without the absolute majority.
This “general plan” that would be the issue of a referendum “will ask for efforts for all, and to the extent that it must be yours, it cannot succeed if the French people do not support it,” François Bayrou said in an interview with the Sunday Journal (JDD) and published on Saturday night.
The government, which has escaped censorship several times in the 2025 budget texts, is now working on its copy for 2026. Not only is it to find 40 billion euros in savings, with the aim of reducing the public deficit in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 5.4% this year to 4.6% next year. But also to convince the basis of this policy.
Role of Parliament
At the moment, François Bayrou accelerated this task, exhibiting his particular diagnosis during a public finance conference last month. For concrete measures, Matignon’s tenant does not yet decide, even if several government members have mentioned the clues, some, such as the issue of suppression of the fiscal assignment of retirees, make the teeth shiver.
By adopting his plan adopted by the referendum, François Bayrou could try to trust a form of legitimacy before a parliament where his camp is fragile, due to lack of majority.
“When we reformed for classical forms, by the passage in force, what happens? The country smells on strike, the demonstrations are linked,” said Matignon’s tenant. In any case, the last word will return to the President of the Republic, which has the power to organize referendums.
Meanwhile, Sébastien Chenu highlights the role of Parliament in the examination of budgetary texts. For example, he attributes to the extreme right “the fact that retirees are not united” in inflation in the last budget, as initially provided by the Barnier government.
“Therefore, it still serves that passes in front of Parliament,” says the northern deputy. By forgetting that the Socialist Party also demanded the abandonment of this measure in exchange for its non -censorship of the Bayroun government. Just when Laurent Wauquiez, head of the deputies of LR, had also welcomed the Executive at this point.
Even if it means organizing a referendum, it must be done in the judges of “immigration” Sébastien Chenu, supporting this well -known RN proposal again, even if the Constitution does not allow, as it is, to consult the French on the subject.
Or then, if François Bayrou “wants to have his budgetary guidelines validated by the French, well, he asks Emmanuel Macron to dissolve the National Assembly,” causes the RN spokesman.
However, this possibility that Emmanuel Macron finds this summer, a year after having dissolved on the night of the European elections, would lead to a great inconvenience for the RN: its leader, Marine Le Pen, is for the inelegable moment after his trial in the first instance within the frame Judgment.
Source: BFM TV
