The draft budget is due to be presented next Thursday to the Council of Ministers. A crisis budget whose objective is to start stopping the widening of public deficits which have exceeded the alert rating according to Michel Barnier. Asked about this situation and its impact on France’s financial credibility at the closing press conference of the Francophonie summit in Paris, Emmanuel Macron passed the buck to his Prime Minister and Parliament…
A “colossal” debt, that’s what Michel Barnier says he found when he arrived in Matignon. The Prime Minister who, on several occasions, questioned the financial balance sheet of the previous government. So it was with a touch of exasperation in his voice that Emmanuel Macron answered a question about his responsibility in the increase in deficits. “Where I am, I ensure the independence and stability of the country. I’ve been doing it for seven years through the crises and let’s not forget everything we did during these crises… I see some who said that we were doing too little, reproaching us today for having done too much at all! I try to be consistent. »
It is not easy to remain in his role as president who lets the prime minister govern when the policy pursued over the past seven years is under attack, says Valérie Gas, from RFI’s political service. So Emmanuel Macron sends everyone back to their responsibilities in the present moment: “It is up to the Prime Minister to conduct the affairs of his government and to do so in dialogue with the parliamentary groups where it seems to me that there are officials with whom he must build the solution and who have a fairly clear vision of public affairs and the budget of recent months and years… »
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