Electricity tax, risk of censorship, Macron. Those informed by franceinfo from Thursday November 28, 2024

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Michel Barnier has given up on increasing taxes on electricity:

“I have decided not to increase taxes on electricity in the 2025 finance bill”, “this will allow a reduction in electricity prices of 14%, which will therefore go well beyond the reduction of 9% initially planned”, asserts the Prime Minister in an interview with Le Figaro, in the hope of convincing the National Rally not to censor the government.

Risk of censorship for Michel Barnier:

Even if the Prime Minister has given up on increasing taxes on electricity, the president of the RN, Jordan Bardella, added that “red lines remain” for his party. The government must also renounce the “additional de-reimbursement of medicines”, drastically reduce “costly” state medical aid for undocumented foreigners (AME), put in place “a moratorium on any new creation or increase in taxes and tax” and initiate “a serious migratory and penal tightening,” he detailed. In place for barely more than two months, the government is playing for its survival in the face of the motion of censure that the RN threatens to vote with the left, perhaps as early as next week on the Social Security budget. The Lepenist party also supports the New Popular Front in its attempt on Thursday to repeal the much-criticized pension reform.

Resignation of Emmanuel Macron, a possible scenario?

What will Emmanuel Macron do in the event of government censorship? Uncertainty reigns over the attitude that the head of state would adopt, who has several solutions at his disposal — resigning government, renaming Michel Barnier, changing Prime Minister — before regaining his right of dissolution. Emmanuel Macron ruled out the possibility of his resignation.
Only two assurances: the first, if he were to be overthrown, Michel Barnier would have to resign from his government. The second: Emmanuel Macron will not then be able to dissolve the Assembly, as Charles De Gaulle did in 1962 in reaction to the fall of the government of Georges Pompidou, the only precedent in the history of the Fifth Republic. The current president will only recover this prerogative at the end of a period of one year after the election (June 30 – July 7) triggered by his dissolution.

The guests :

Bruno Cautrespolitical scientist, CNRS researcher at CEVIPOF, the Research Center for Political Life, teacher at Sciences Po

Sylvie Pierre-Brossolettecolumnist at Le Point

Etienne Girardeditor-in-chief of the society department at L’Express

David Revault d’Allonneseditor-in-chief of the Hémicycle magazine

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