The French extreme right will vote in favor of censure of the Government of Michel Barnier “barring a last-minute miracle,” as indicated this Monday by the president of the party, Jordan Bardellaright hand of his leader, Marine Le Pen. “We have closed the matter (…) I am forced to announce that we will censure the Government,” Bardella said on RTL radio.
The Executive, which lacks a parliamentary majority, must present the Social Security accounts this Monday and, if it does not obtain the votes of the deputies of the far-right party, faces a motion of censure.
The young politician, headliner in the past legislative elections, has assured that Barnier You have until 3:00 p.m. to completely change the Budget project that was adopted last week by a mixed commission of deputies and senators, among whom it does have an absolute majority. “But I have little hope that he will be illuminated by grace,” Bardella added.
The statements of the president of the far-right party National Group (RN) come after a weekend of negotiations to try to save the Government, which depends on its 140 votes in the lower house. If Barnier adopts the Social Security budget without a parliamentary vote, the left will present a motion of censure and, if it adds the votes of the extreme right, the Executive will fall.
In recent days, the head of the Government has made some concessions to the far right, renouncing a tax on electricity or cutting medical aid to clandestine immigrants. However, the RN considers it “insufficient” and has put other “red lines” on the table, such as the subsidy of some medicines or the waiver of small business taxes.
Barnier has devised adjustment Budgets, given the increase in the French deficit, which will be 6.1% this year, and for fear that international markets will raise interest rates for the country.
In case of censure by the Barnier Government, the president, Emmanuel Macronwill have to appoint a new Executive, something that seems difficult in the complex parliamentary balance that emerged from the last legislative elections.
Three large blocks, without an absolute majority, are blocked in the lower house: the left of the New Popular FrontMacron’s centrists, now allied with Barnier’s conservatives, and Le Pen’s extreme right.
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