Budget 2026, armaments of the municipal police, situation in Gaza … on 8:30 am Olivier Faure

The first secretary of the Socialist Party was the guest of “8:30 am Franceinfo”, Monday July 7, 2025.

Olivier Faure, first secretary of the PS was the guest of “8:30 am Franceinfo”, Friday July 4, 2025. Budget 2026, armament of the municipal police, situation in Gaza, he answered questions from Agathe Lambret and Benjamin Fontaine.

Budget 2026: “We must still take the money where it is,” says Olivier Faure

“You still have to take the money where it is and that you stop pissing off the French”denounces Olivier Faure on franceinfo Monday July 7. Asked about the tracks to find 40 billion euros in savings, in the next budget, the first secretary of the Socialist Party calls to tax the richest and to seek “Structural savings”.
“The 500 richest families in France have a heritage that increased from 600 billion euros to 1,200 billion euros. They earned 600 billion euros in wealth”insists Olivier Faure, “And now it is all the French that we ask 40 billion. There is a moment when it is still necessary that we take the money where he is and that we stop annoying the French”. Olivier Faure notably pleads in favor of the Zucman tax, named after an economist who offers to tax 2% on heritage exceeding 100 million euros, which was rejected by the Senate.

Disarm the police “makes no sense”, according to Olivier Faure

The socialist leader assures that the PS will not put itself “Behind an rebellious mayor who announces that he will delete video protection or that he will delete the armaments of the police.” Sunday, the president of the LFI deputies, Mathilde Panot, assured that the rebellious mayors elected in 2026 will disarm the municipal police Where she is armed and criticized the use of video surveillance. “It makes no sense”replies Olivier Faure, it is not “Absolutely not” in the PS program.
“There will be no socialist who will have in his program the end of any form of video protection”, insists Olivier Faure, who says he is “attached” to this “tool” as long as he does not replace the “Men and women in the field”. “Videoction, it is used in particular in surveys. Everyone knows it well”says the first secretary of the PS. He takes as an example the Nahel affair, this 17 -year -old teenager, killed with a bullet fired at close range by a police officer during a road check in June 2023, who had led to riot nights throughout France. “In the Nahel case, it was the video surveillance cameras that made it possible to say who was at fault”Recalls the socialist deputy of Seine-et-Marne.

Olivier Faure denounces a genocide in Gaza

There is “A genocide in progress” In Gaza denounces the first secretary of the Socialist Party who calls Emmanuel Macron to recognize a Palestinian state. “I encourage the President of the Republic to do what he said that he would do”Lances Olivier Faure, while the Palestine conference that France was to co -spill in June was postponed Sine Die.
Olivier Faure says he is skeptical about the chances of tearing up a ceasefire on Monday, during the meeting in Washington between Donald Trump and Benyamin Netanhayou. “If in the coming hours, we were not coming to a truce simply, but a ceasefire that will help to achieve a political solution, there indeed, I will applaud. But we are very far”declares the socialist leader.
Olivier Faure hammers that the only way to resolve the conflict, “It is to achieve a political solution, a solution to two states which coexist, which coexist, which ensure their mutual security. I obviously think of a Palestinian state alongside an Israeli state. And the end of colonization”.