The president of the Les Républicains (LR) party has once again launched his attack on the Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, whose government he blames. “cynicism” and the budget, whose “revenue” section is rejected on the nights of Friday through Saturday. “This budget is the bottleneck of the century”he said in a newspaper interview Parisian will be released this Sunday.
The former interior minister accused the government of doing this “nameless incitement”confirmed that Sébastien Lecornu “Made a commitment to (him) not to touch this reform (Borne pension reform, editor’s note) during high-profile government contract negotiations.”
“This suspension is pure cynicism : the government is mortgaging our collective future to keep going for a few more weeks, a few months. All this is sad”he said, criticizing Sébastien Lecornu for his chosen method: “By abandoning 49.3, Sébastien Lecornu tied his hands, then extended them to the socialists by offering them a suspension of pension reform and a mountain of tax increases. Of course, we covered all this with big words: we hid behind parliamentarism to hide “aplaventrism””he said, creating a wonderful neologism.
“This budget is the bottleneck of the century”he addresses, spinning his metaphor: “At the same time, this is a fiscal obstacle, a social obstacle and a democratic obstacle”. With no majority in parliament, the government has been involved for weeks in discussions with left-wing groups, especially the Socialist Party, in a bid to give France a budget for 2026.
“The PS takes control of the government while France has never been so right-wing. The First Secretary of the PS is the Prime Minister. Olivier Faure calls the shots. Sébastien Lecornu does the same”he said. Here, in his mouth, the current host Matignon was demoted to a simple executor of PS.
Regarding the budget, LR boss thinks so“There is indeed a majority in the National Assembly. It is the tax party, from the LFI to the National Rally. Marine Le Pen’s deputies voted for a tax increase of 34 billion in 24 hours.he assured. And to denounce “tax stupidity” deputies, where he assured that his party would return to the Senate.
“The budget, as it develops, will undoubtedly lead to a deficit greater than 5%, perhaps 5.3% (…) The Senate has a reasonable position: less taxes and more savings. We want to return well below 5%, to 4.7% of GDP, while eliminating the restaurant voucher tax or the plastic tax“, he said.
And to reveal it, faced with this budget “which threw France into chaos”austerity measures he recommended: non-replacement of all retiring civil servants, abolition of state medical aid (AME) to replace it with “emergency medical aid”, reduction of credit for state institutions, etc.
