Budget 2025, apology for terrorism… Those informed by franceinfo from Monday November 25, 2024

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Published on 11/25/2024 9:19 p.m.

Updated on 11/25/2024 10:11 p.m.

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Those informed by franceinfo from Monday November 25, 2024 (FRANCEINFO/RADIOFRANCE)

The themes:

Examination of the 2025 budget, pressure mounts on Barnier

The Senate has taken up the government’s draft budget for 2025, ready to support most of the measures in this high-risk text for Michel Barnier. In search of 60 billion euros in savings to restore flagging public finances and reduce the deficit to 5% of GDP in 2025, the Prime Minister is counting on the upper house, dominated by his Republican political family. The pressure on the Prime Minister remains strong: after a meeting at Matignon on Monday, Marine Le Pen promised him censorship if the budget remained “as is”. Mathilde Panot on behalf of the left firmly maintained their threats of government censorship after their talks with Michel Barnier.

Rebels and socialists, disagreements multiply

Apology for terrorism, follow-up to a possible motion of censure, outlines of the abolition of the pension reform: the subjects of discord between socialists and Insoumis, the best enemies of the New Popular Front, are multiplying while a post- Barnier is emerging in people’s minds. The Minister of Justice, Didier Migaud, said on Monday that he was “extremely shocked” and “resolutely against” the proposed LFI law aimed at removing from the penal code the offense of advocating terrorism, which has sparked heated controversy. “It is despicable, it must be fought with the greatest force (….) Freedom of expression has never allowed everything, there are limits to this freedom of expression,” continued the minister regarding the text carried by the LFI deputy from the North Ugo Bernalicis and his colleagues from France insoumise.