Marine le Pen threatens the Barnier government with censorship: why now?

The end of the debates on the 2025 budget is approaching and the horizon is not clear for Michel Barnier, quite the contrary. His Minister of the Economy Antoine Armand stands up against too many taxes and Marine Le Pen once again brandishes her threat of a motion of censure in the government “if the purchasing power of the French is reduced”.

The president of the National Rally group in the Assembly also discovered the indictment handed down against her as part of the trial of the parliamentary assistants of the National Front: five years in prison, two of which are closed, a fine of 300,000 euros and five years of imprisonment. ineligibility.

Could these requisitions of justice have had an influence on Marine Le Pen’s political choice to relaunch the threat of censorship, while she had until now implicitly supported the Barnier government? Is this a bluff or will she take the plunge? Will France find itself plunged into a political and budgetary crisis?

Roselyne Febvre and Jean-Marie Colombani, director of Slate.fr, receive to talk about it Nathalie Saint-Cricq, political columnist, Catherine Tricot, director of the magazine Regards, and Laurent Joffrin, director of LeJournal.info, in “Politique”, the France 24 show in partnership with Slate.