The socialist deputy Philippe Brun, also vice-president of the finance committee, indicates that his party will present a counterbudget at the start of the school year. “We want it to be the basis of discussion with the government,” he said, while François Bayrou is threatened by the opposition to be overthrown.
The savings plan of nearly 44 billion euros for 2026, presented in mid-July by François Bayrou, “must be reduced” by about “half” if “wishes to open the dialogue and that France has a budget,” said socialist deputy Philippe Brun on Thursday, August 14.
“The effort must be reduced” from 43.8 billion to “about half”, estimated on France Info the elected official of the Eure, explaining that the PS wanted to “avoid austerity” and “spread over time” the reduction of the public deficit.
His party will present his own plan “from the start of the start of the school year in September” and “we want it to be the basis for discussion with the government,” he added, calling on the Prime Minister to “radically change posture if he wishes to open the dialogue and that France has a budget”.
Use great fortunes
In particular, he suggested “putting those who have benefited from the crisis”, in this case “the great fortunes which have been completely exempt from efforts”, via “a differential contribution on high heritage, which makes it possible to avoid tax optimizations”.
In the opposite, according to him, of a “Bayrou plan (of which) there is almost nothing to remember”, because it “hits France which works (and) which rises early” by putting “essentially contributing to popular and medium classes”.
The PS, which holds one of the keys to government censorship in the Assembly, had already made known in mid-July by the voice of its first secretary Olivier Faure that “on the current bases” of the 2026 budget This revocation was “the only possible perspective”.