Sending “ceiling letters” for the 2025 budget is a “clear democratic denial” for LFI Éric Coquerel

The outgoing government sent ceiling letters to ministries for the 2025 budget on Tuesday evening.

The deputy of La France insoumise and president of the finance committee at the National Assembly Éric Coquerel speaks on Wednesday August 21 on franceinfo of a “clear democratic denial”, about the “ceiling letters” sent to the ministries by the resigning government. They set the budget for the coming year of each ministry and the expenditure not to be exceeded.

He deplores the fact that a resigning government “sends such political texts.” “The nation’s budget” East “in essence a sovereign gesture, that of Parliament”, believes the MP, recalling that “the Republic and the National Assembly were initially created on budgetary issues.”

But according to the chairman of the finance committee, the government “doesn’t really know where he’s going”because the “reprinted”, which condenses “all these ceilings”, “will not arrive before next week”, while it was expected this week. “I still wonder if there is not some hesitation in waiting for the appointment of a government in good and due form,” he deduces“A budget is going to be proposed, under the pretext of having to meet deadlines, by a resigning government which is a minority in the country, that doesn’t hold water,” castigates Eric Coquerel.

By not appointing a government from the New Popular Front (NFP), Emmanuel Macron, according to him, continues “the same policy, the one that the French people massively rejected”. “This is more than problematic and will lead the government into a dead end”, according to him.

Eric Coquerel also mentions the meetings next Friday between the political forces and Emmanuel Macron, from which he expects “a little lucidity”. The head of state will notably meet Lucie Castets, the candidate proposed by the NFP for the post of Prime Minister. “The least harm he can do to the country is to respect the vote of the French, to send a message that it is not useless to go and vote, and to allow us to apply to the NFP choices diametrically opposed to his own”reacts Eric Coquerel. “Let him let us do it (…) let him leave a government that respects universal suffrage”, he urges.