Without a funds for 2025, there will likely be “no catastrophe predicted”, says Yaël Braun-Pivet, nor “no risk of shutdown”, assures Marine Le Pen | EUROtoday

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The President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, and the Prime Minister, Michel Barnier, in the Hemicycle, in Paris, October 8, 2024.

There will likely be no “disaster predicted” if France fails to undertake a funds for 2025 because of authorities censorship, in flip defended the President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, Tuesday November 26, on Sud Radio. “I hear everything and often anything. (…) Our texts are well done, our Constitution and our rules are there, so no disaster predicted, no American-style shutdown. (…) There is no worst-case scenario.”assured Mme Braun-Pivet.

“The government can present to Parliament what is called a special law to collect taxes from 1er January, there may be renewal of expenditure by decree to be able to pay civil servants, retirees, etc. »she detailed. The government spokesperson, Maud Bregeon, said in particular that she feared a financial crisis and “a Greek scenario”during which civil servants wouldn’t be paid in January.

“It creates political instability and that must worry everyone, but we must not have too catastrophic a vision either”replied the President of the Assembly. “I don’t want to worry our compatriots. We have solutions anyway, we are responsible”she added.

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“The real risk for democracy is not the shutdown”

The president of the National Rally (RN) deputies in the Assembly, Marine Le Pen, accused, in a column published by Le Figaro Tuesday, the government to broadcast ” faux information “ about the hypothetical non-payment of civil servants. “There is no risk of shutdown in our institutions (…) contrary to what certain members of the government assert in unison”assures the far-right representative.

“The real risk for democracy is not the shutdown: it is fake news [fausses informations] ! »she adds. “We will not let the National Rally become the scapegoat for the incompetence of leaders incapable of debate and compromise”also writes Mme Le Pen, ensuring that he ” suggest [et] documented, line by line » A “equilibrium scenario”however that “approach does not[vait] was followed by no effect ».

On his side, the political coordinator of La France insoumise (LFI), Manuel Bompard, spoke on France Inter, believing that “This way of taking the French for imbeciles is just unbearable and unacceptable”. “We must stop with these catastrophic speeches, in France, there is no shutdown” like within the United States, he added. “There is no risk of [parvenir] to a situation in which civil servants are not paid or public services no longer function (…). This is a pure and simple lie: the parliamentary calendar perfectly allows, in this case, to discuss and put in place another budget”developed the deputy for Bouche-du-Rhône.

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While the budgetary dialogue has largely handed the Senate and several other joint committees – made up of seven senators and 7 deputies – will attempt to discover compromises on the Social Security and State budgets and on execution for 2024 , the noose is tightening on the federal government, which plans to make use of article 49.3 of the Constitution to go them and subsequently expose itself to censorship.

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The RN not hides its intention to vote on one of many motions of censure which will likely be tabled by the left if the three budgetary texts stay “as is”, in line with Marine Le Pen. With the deputies of the New Popular Front, the bulk could be reached and the federal government of Michel Barnier overthrown. The movement of censure is “a constitutional right which belongs to parliamentarians”recalled Yaël Braun-Pivet, involved that “everyone puts themselves in a constructive position for the good of our country”.

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