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Public deficit: “Perhaps the dissolution is linked to the budgetary question”
Xavier Timbeau, economist, director of the French Observatory of Economic Conditions (OFCE) discusses the reasons for the dissolution of the National Assembly on June 9. According to him, Emmanuel Macron could have taken this decision to create a diversion and hide from the French the extent of the public deficit. The franceinfo Talk, two hours of exchanges, insights, debate around current affairs and social issues, every Wednesday and Thursday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Twitch.
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According to economist Xavier Timbeau, guest of the Franceinfo Talk on Thursday October 10, Emmanuel Macron could have chosen the option of dissolution so as not to have to explain the budgetary situation before the summer.
Xavier Timbeau, economist, director of the French Observatory of Economic Conditions (OFCE) returns on Thursday October 10 in the Franceinfo Talk on the reasons for the dissolution of the National Assembly on June 9. According to him, Emmanuel Macron could have taken this decision to create a diversion and hide from the French the extent of the public deficit.
“After the result of the European elections, Emmanuel Macron decides to dissolve, most probably so as not to have to tell the truth to the French, to parliamentarians, about the budgetary situation, thus estimates the economist. Perhaps this dissolution is even linked to this budgetary question and not to the results of the European elections and that it is a kind of bet.”
“The dissolution will destabilize French political life and interrupt the budgetary procedure in June, the month during which we must have a budgetary orientation debate.”
Xavier Timbeauat franceinfo
“All of this was blown up and didn’t happen, he continues. The finance bill was drawn up urgently, in circumstances which are very, very particular and where we discover, at the time it is presented, this difference in deficit.”
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