It is “out of the question” to “enter” a government that increases taxes or even to “support” it, Gérald Darmanin reacted on Wednesday.
The resigning Minister of the Interior also took the opportunity to tackle the Governor of the Bank of France, François Villeroy de Galhau, who suggested an “exceptional and reasonable” fiscal effort on certain large companies and large taxpayers. Unlike the governor, whose name is sometimes cited for Bercy, “I committed to my voters not to increase taxes,” he affirmed.
During his consultations to form his government, the new Prime Minister is said to have mentioned to several interlocutors an increase in taxes, in the name of a particularly difficult budgetary situation, with a public deficit that could widen to 5.6% of GDP this year. However, his entourage denied this on Tuesday, stating that this was only “pure speculation” and referred to his first television interview in which he had mentioned “tax justice” without further details.
Hello everyone. Since the hypothesis of a tax increase was put on the table, things have been going badly between Michel Barnier and Emmanuel Macron’s supporters. The formation of the government was indeed faced on Wednesday with growing tensions between the tenant of Matignon and the Macronists seeking “clarification” on their place in the future team and the political line of the Prime Minister. The latter for his part responded to having discovered “a very serious budgetary situation”.
So while waiting to know the list of ministers, the editorial staff of 20 Minutes is mobilizing to give you all the political twists and turns of this Thursday.