Almost a month after his appointment to Matignon, the Prime Minister will speak to MPs on Tuesday to present his government’s guidelines.
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Time for the big oral. On Monday, September 30, Prime Minister Michel Barnier put the finishing touches to the general policy declaration that he will deliver on Tuesday to the National Assembly. After the election on July 7 of a hemicycle divided into three blocks and the long maturation to form a government team around a “common base”this highly anticipated speech will not be followed by a vote of confidence, franceinfo learned from the entourage of the tenant of Matignon, confirming information from Europe 1.
Carrying out such a vote in the wake of the general policy declaration is not “not a constitutional obligation”but “a possibility”, declare relatives of Michel Barnier, adding that it is the“constant use” since there is no absolute majority among the deputies.
Neither Elisabeth Borne nor Gabriel Attal, Emmanuel Macron’s two previous prime ministers, had been subjected to a vote of confidence following their general policy speeches.
Before speaking in the National Assembly, at 3 p.m., Michel Barnier will convene a Council of Ministers. Little has filtered since his appointment on September 5. At most, he confirmed on Friday that he wanted to increase certain taxes, in the face of a more degraded budgetary situation than expected, by targeting “those who can contribute to this effort”, either businesses and the very rich, and while preserving “those who are on the ground, who work, who produce”. Aware of the fragility of his situation, the Prime Minister again admitted on Saturday that he did not know “how long” he would hold on to Matignon.
He will also very quickly have to face a motion of censure from the left, which the RN has pledged not to vote for.
“We are in a new era. Each text will be the subject of discussions with everyone”, further noted the entourage of the head of government.