The ministers “will receive the elected representatives of LFI or the National Rally if they wish to be received” because “they are elected representatives of the Republic”, “period”, declared, Friday September 27, Prime Minister Michel Barnier in an interview with Journal of Saône-et-Loire. He was questioned about his telephone call to Marine Le Pen and his reframing of the Minister of the Economy, Antoine Armand, who had affirmed that the RN was not part of “the republican arch”. “Marine Le Pen is president of a group which is very important in the National Assembly and I wanted to confirm to her, as I could have done to others, that the rule is that the groups represented in the Assembly would be respected and listened to”specified Michel Barnier. Follow our live stream.
Michel Barnier and Bruno Retailleau traveling to Mâcon. The Prime Minister and his Minister of the Interior are going to the 130th fire brigade congress in Saône-et-Loire, the day after the government seminar in Matignon.
The tax increase is becoming clearer. The Prime Minister raised this thorny issue again in his interview with Journal of Saône-et-Loire. Michel Barnier plans to “appeal, in an exceptional and temporary manner, to those who can contribute” to the effort to restore public finances. On the other hand, he has promised to protect “any tax increase” those “who work, who produce”.
Two new ministers in the government. Horizons MP Charlotte Parmentier-Lecocq has been appointed Minister for People with Disabilities under the Minister of Solidarity Paul Christophe. The deputy LR Jean-Louis Thiériot is appointed Minister Delegate to the Minister of the Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs. There are now 41 of them who make up the government.