“No one should be excluded from the discussions,” assures Antoine Vermorel-Marques, LR deputy

Michel Barnier reprimanded one of his ministers three days after his appointment, on Tuesday, September 24. The Prime Minister asked Arnaud Armand to meet with the RN like all the other political groups in order to prepare the budget. “We have Republican colleagues who were elected by French citizens within the framework of the Fifth Republic and who must be respected as French parliamentarians. This does not mean that we agree. We have lines that will separate us. But no one must be excluded from the discussions. This was the line that had been decided by Michel Barnier from the start.”recalls Antoine Vermorel-Marques, LR deputy for the Loire.

A reframing carried out after Marine Le Pen was offended that the RN was being kept at a distance. “A Prime Minister who telephones the head of the first group of the National Assembly in terms of deputies, that’s not extraordinary. We understood that we respected each other even if we didn’t agree. So Michel Barnier’s ministers must respect the rules of the game, including Arnaud Armand, Minister of the Economy.”responds Philippe Ballard, deputy of Oise and spokesperson for the RN.