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Le Pen and the left put an end to Barnier’s “ephemeral government” and its recipes “disallowed at the polls”

Le Pen and the left put an end to Barnier's "ephemeral government" and its recipes "disallowed at the polls"

He New Popular Front (NFP) and National Group They cried out this Wednesday in the National Assembly against the prime ministerMichel Barnier, at the start of the debate on a motion of censure that will foreseeably put an end to what the far-right leader Marine Le Pen has described as a “Ephemeral government”.

Three months after being sworn in as prime minister, Barnier is approaching his end due to the lack of consensus on the budgets. “Today we make history,” the deputy said from the lectern. Eric Coquerelmember of La Francia Insumisa and speaker of a tense session.

Coquerel has reiterated that The current Government is based on an “insult” to voters that in the last legislative elections they placed the left as the bloc with the most seats in the National Assembly, although no party or political family alone has a sufficient majority.

The LFI deputy has accused Barnier of not negotiating with the New Popular Front the budget reforms that, according to the prime minister, France needs. He did propose some concessions, “but with the extreme right,” Coquerel lamented to justify the foreseeable fall of the Executive.

For its part, Le Pen has criticized Barnier for his “sectarianism” and “dogmatism”, within a fiery speech in which he assured that the Government and the president, Emmanuel Macron, have prepared public accounts that punish the middle and working class, among other things with tax increases.

The far-right leader accused the prime minister of rely on the same recipes as Macron “disauthorized at the polls” in the last legislative elections, which turned it into “a Government devoid of democratic bases.”

He assured that Barnier rejected his group’s demands regarding immigration, the fight against insecurity and the protection of purchasing power, and accused him of applying “cold accounting, devised in bureaucratic offices without putting himself in the place of citizens.” when preparing the budget project.

“This budget goes against the French, especially the weakest, those with a small pension, the sick, the working poor, those considered too rich to be helped and not poor enough to be spared the fiscal steamroller,” he said.

Le Pen accused Macron of the delicate situation in which the country finds itselfbut did not ask for his resignation: “Only he can conclude whether he can maintain himself, whether he can continue to sacrifice the fate of the French for his own pride and continue to face the spite of the French.”

The leader of the extreme right confirmed that they will support the motion of censure presented by the left but rejected any alliance with them, whom she described as “carnival cheguevarists.”

At the same time, he indicated that his party is “prepared to open a new path of recovery” that “will soon come to power and will be the leap of hope that the country awaits.”

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