She already assures it, it will be a red line. Guest of BFMTV and RMC This Friday morning, Marine Le Pen said that an increase in taxes in the 2026 budget would encourage the national rally to censor the government.
“If (François) Bayrou intends to increase taxes as did before him (Michel) Barnier, he will push us to make the same decision (…) namely to vote a censorship,” said the leader of RN deputies.
From New Caledonia where she completed a three-day visit, she reacted to A possible return of “social VAT”subject of which the Prime Minister wished on Tuesday that unions and employers “can seize”.
“It becomes unbearable”
Voted in 2012 at the end of Nicolas Sarkozy’s five -year term, then immediately repealed by his successor François Hollande and therefore never applied, this measure consisted in compensating for declines of contributions weighing on work by an increase in VATto allocate a fraction of social security financing.
But, for Marine Le Pen, “social VAT is the increase in tax that strikes the most modest” and “always asking for efforts from the French without the state being able to do it, it becomes unbearable”.
However, the current government, according to her, has “no political will to tackle the lifestyle of the state”, nor to “attack fraud” or to “limit the costs of uncontrolled immigration”.
The far -right leader has, in passing, swept the hypothesis raised by François Bayrou of a referendum on an “overall plan” of deficits reductions. “In a referendum we do not ask a question, it is a bill that is subject to the French,” she said, advancing for example her proposal to “suppress family allowances for foreigners”.
“There is an elephant in the corridor (and) massive savings to make”, but “does (François) Bayrou want to do this? I don’t think so, ”she added.
