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French Prime Minister François Bayrou has warned that he will use special executive powers to force his government’s contentious 2025 budget through parliament without a vote – a move that is certain to trigger a no-confidence motion...

 

French PM Bayrou says will force through contentious budget without a vote

 

France’s minority government faced the prospect of a no-confidence motion next week after Prime Minister François Bayrou confirmed he would use special powers to force through his budget without a vote in parliament.

“A country like ours cannot remain without a budget,” Bayrou told the Sunday newspaper La Tribune Dimanche, confirming that he would use article 49.3 of the French constitution to bypass parliament.

The prime minister warned opposition parties that an attempt to topple his government would damage the economy. France's failure so far to approve the much-delayed 2025 budget has rattled investors while sapping business and household confidence.

The government has had to make billions of euros in concessions to forge a bill with a chance of being passed. Any failure to get it over the line will likely cut short Bayrou's premiership.

His minority government got a boost on Friday when a panel of French lawmakers agreed on the final text of a budget proposal, sending the bill to the lower house floor next week.

After the meeting, the opposition Socialists struck a constructive tone, saying they were not thrilled with the text, but were happy to have obtained concessions to improve the lives of ordinary people.

“This was not our budget; we are an opposition party and we have made that clear,” Socialist lawmaker Boris Vallaud told reporters. “We have managed to minimise the sufferings and the attacks on the purchasing power of retirees and patients.”

Conservative Les Républicains (LR) lawmaker Philippe Juvin said the budget “does not satisfy anyone, but it’s better than no budget.”

The hard-left La France insoumise (France Unbowed) party had warned it would call a no-confidence vote if the government used article 49.3 of the constitution to ram through the budget, a move its Communist and Green allies are almost certain to back.

However, they would need the support of the Socialists and the far-right National Rally to topple Bayrou’s government.

National Rally lawmaker Jean-Philippe Tanguy grumbled about the deal after it was agreed on Friday. He did not say whether his party would back a potential no-confidence motion next week, but he acknowledged the urgent need for France to finalise a budget.

The French economy grew 1.1 percent in 2024 but shrank in the fourth quarter as a political crisis gripped the country, weakening a boost from the Paris Olympic Games, official data showed earlier this week.

Finance Minister Eric Lombard told TF1 television on Friday that the government was sticking to its goal of bringing the public sector deficit to 5.4 percent of gross domestic product this year.

The public sector deficit was forecast to hit close to 6 percent last year due to a shortfall in tax income and higher-than-expected spending.

(FRANCE 24 with Reuters)

 

https://www.france24.com/en/france/20250202-french-pm-bayrou-says-will-force-through-contentious-budget-without-a-vote

 

ORATION BY MACROLEON IN CARTOON AT: https://www.legrandsoir.info/declaration-du-president-de-la-republique-7624.html

 

SEE ALSO: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250201-ex-charlie-hebdo-artist-wins-top-prize-at-comics-festival

 

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         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

 

HYPOCRISY ISN’T ONE OF THE SINS OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.

HENCE ITS POPULARITY IN THE ABRAHAMIC TRADITIONS…

 

PLEASE DO NOT BLAME RUSSIA IF WW3 STARTS. BLAME AMERICA.

 

Bertrand du Guesclin (born c. 1320, La Motte, near Dinan, France—died July 13, 1380, Châteauneuf-de-Randon) was a national French hero, an outstanding military leader during the early part of the Hundred Years’ War (1337–1453). After attaining the highest military position as constable of France in 1370, he brilliantly used the strategy of avoiding set battles with the English until the French had sufficient advantage to defeat them soundly.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bertrand-du-Guesclin

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Price hike on non-EU visitors will fund Louvre's ‘renaissance’, Macron says

French President Emmanuel Macron announced a "new renaissance" for the Louvre on Tuesday, including a multi-million-euro revamp to be funded by a hike in ticket prices for non-EU visitors. Among the key changes will be the creation of a new entrance and dedicated space for the famed Mona Lisa painting. 

French President Emmanuel Macron visited Paris's Louvre museum on Tuesday and announced plans for a "new grand entrance" as he unveiled a plan to upgrade the world's most-visited museum.

In a speech in front of the Mona Lisa, Macron said that the new access would help ease congestion at the Pyramid entrance which was designed for a maximum of 4 million visitors a year but today receives up to 9 million.

He added that the Mona Lisa would be moved to a new exhibition spot where it would be "independently accessible compared to the rest of the museum", with "its own access pass".

He said the works would be financed entirely using the museum's "own resources".

Macron's announcement was made days after the museum's director issued a warning about the dire conditions for visitors and artefacts at the Paris landmark.

The seat of French kings until Louis XIV abandoned it for Versailles in the late 1600s, the Louvre is regularly listed as the world's most-visited museum and houses masterpieces including Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa painting and the Greek marble sculpture known as the Venus de Milo.

"The Louvre is a symbol of France, it is a source of French pride," an aide to Macron told AFP. "It would be wrong to remain deaf and blind to the risks affecting the museum today." 

Like other French national museums, the Louvre is shut on Tuesday, meaning the president will not cross paths with the general public on his visit.

The move was announced after it emerged this week that Laurence des Cars, the first woman head of the French landmark, had written a memo about her concerns to Culture Minister Rachida Dati earlier this month.

She warned about the "proliferation of damage in museum spaces, some of which are in very poor condition".

Furthermore, some areas "are no longer watertight, while others experience significant temperature variations, endangering the preservation of artworks", she added.

Even the museum's most modern addition – a glass pyramid designed by Chinese-American architect Ieoh Ming Pei and inaugurated in 1989 – comes in for severe criticism because of its "major shortcomings".

It was used by President Emmanuel Macron for a state dinner ahead of the opening of the Paris Olympics last July, but des Cars said it acted like a greenhouse on hot days and became "very inhospitable" as well as being noisy.

Despite the French government's budget problems and the imminent closure of the Pompidou museum for renovations, des Cars said the Louvre required an overhaul that would likely be costly and technically complicated. 

A total of 8.7 million people visited its famed galleries last year – around twice the number it was designed for.

Des Cars expressed concern about the quality of the user experience.

Tourists have long complained about the queues to view the Mona Lisa, which is the most popular attraction in the museum and displayed in its largest room.

The memo stressed the need to "reassess" how Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece is presented to the public, with des Cars saying last year that it needed its own dedicated room.

Since taking over as boss of the institution in 2021, des Cars has spoken out publicly about the museum reaching "saturation point".

One of her first major measures was to impose a cap on visitors of 30,000 per day and extend opening hours.

She has also backed an idea to create a second main entrance other than the pyramid to "irrigate" the rest of the museum.

(FRANCE 24 with AFP)

https://www.france24.com/en/culture/20250128-macron-visit-louvre-leaked-memo-warns-museum-poor-condition-paris

 

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

 

HYPOCRISY ISN’T ONE OF THE SINS OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.

HENCE ITS POPULARITY IN THE ABRAHAMIC TRADITIONS…

 

 

PLEASE DO NOT BLAME RUSSIA IF WW3 STARTS. BLAME AMERICA.