Tax increases, deindexation of pensions, health spending: Republican boss Éric Ciotti set LR's
“red lines”
on Saturday on deficit management, beyond which the party
“will not hesitate”
to file a motion of censure against the government in the National Assembly. In an interview with Le
Parisien
, the MP for Alpes-Maritimes once again brandished the threat of a
motion
tabled by the sixty MPs from the LR group, without however moving forward on the timetable for this opposition strategy.
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He detailed his party’s three
“red lines”
on public finances:
“1. We will refuse any increase in compulsory deductions. 2. We will categorically refuse the deindexation of pensions. 3. Health spending must not constitute the adjustment variable for government wanderings
,” explained the head of the Republicans, considering that these options
“animate the ulterior motives of the government”
for the period after the European elections of June 9 .
The hypothesis of a dissolution
“If these red lines are crossed, we will not hesitate
,” he added, saying he was ready to take his
“responsibilities when the time comes
,” without
“fearing the judgment of voters”
in the event of a dissolution of the Assembly if the government was overthrown. Asked about the options for
“taxation of annuities”
envisaged by the government in a context of budgetary slippage, Éric Ciotti said
“forcefully refuses to add tax to tax while we are the country where levies are the heaviest in the world
.
The party has long brandished this threat of censoring the government, but until now it has largely refrained from joining the vote on the motions of censure tabled by the opposition during the examination of the latest draft laws. finances.
Friday, the LR MP for Orne Véronique Louwagie had also asked the Minister of Public Accounts Thomas Cazenave to transmit to parliamentarians the
“details of the public policies affected by the cancellations”
of 10 billion euros taken at the end of February by the government in a decree, in a letter consulted by
AFP
. France's public deficit reached 5.5% of GDP in 2023, according to INSEE, or 15.8 billion euros more than the government had planned.