The French National Assembly will vote on the social security budget on the 9th, but the left and right are deeply divided. If the budget fails to pass, le Cornu, the French prime minister, risks resigning.
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Tuesday’s budget for Social Security, on which he is about to vote, has been greeted with starkly different attitudes by the country’s political parties. The socialist left thinks“A lot of progress has been made” because of Le Cornu’s huge concession on a“Pause in pension reform”, the party’s General Secretary, Olivier Faull, has called on mps to vote yes. “There can be no perfect budget in this situation,” said Gabriel Attar, secretary-general of the ruling Baath Party. “It’s a compromise.” The right-wing parties were furious, republican party chairman Bruno Letayo called on party lawmakers to“Abstain or vote no.” Former prime minister Edward Philips and his party, Horizon, will not support the budget The far-right National Union made it clear it would“Vote no” on Tuesday.
Le Cornu himself is under pressure from the uncertainty that still surrounds the passage of the budget. Jean-philippe Tanguy, a member of Parliament from the far-right National Union, said that if the budget was rejected by Parliament, as prime minister, Mr Le Corleone“Of course must resign! That would be a fundamental repudiation of his whole policy,” said Maud Brejon, a French government spokesman. “Le Cornu’s resignation is meaningless and will only increase crisis and instability.”