US EditionFrench Socialists press Macron's new government for major budget concessions
- French Socialist Party leaders met with Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu to seek significant budget concessions, hoping for a clearer commitment to their proposals for the 2026 budget.
- The Socialists demand to abolish pension changes and introduce a wealth tax, supported by an IFOP poll showing 86% public backing for a new wealth tax and 66% for suspending pension reform.
- Prime Minister Lecornu faces challenges in balancing Macron's legacy while addressing France's budget deficit, which is nearly double the EU's 3% limit.
- Socialist Party leader Olivier Faure stated that they will not negotiate until clear concessions are announced, amidst warnings of potential protests and unrest from unions and left-wing groups.
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The trade unions want to paralyze France on Thursday. A compromise on the savings budget is not in sight: the Socialists are disappointed by Prime Minister Lecornu.
French Socialists press Macron's new government for major budget concessions
France's Socialists sought major budget concessions on Wednesday from new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu, who needs support from other parties to pass laws, in talks that could shape the final years of President Emmanuel Macron's second term.
The left demands a tax on the rich in exchange for the decisive support to Lecornu: a way to sweeten the austerity pill.In these days France has arrived, with a delay of 14 years, exactly where it was Italy in autumn 2011.The season of the unhappy soon fate and the government of M...
In France, a new round of consultation on Wednesday 17 September for Sébastien Lecornu. After the political forces of the common base, after the social partners, the newly appointed Prime Minister meets this time with the main opposition parties: National Rally, ecologists, Communist Party. But it is above all the Socialist Party that Sébastien Lecornu will have to convince.
Mathieu Laine urged the Prime Minister to urgently reform public spending and avoid any concessions to the Socialist Party. Taxation of capital would be a madness, he said.
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