“We can fall at any time”, believes Sébastien Lecornu

“If our oppositions want to censor, they will censor. I am very lucid. This could be derailed ten times over,” said the Prime Minister in an interview with “La Tribune Dimanche”.

He has not been censored, but he knows he is on probation. “We can fall at any time” on the budget, acknowledged Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, Saturday November 1, in two interviews published in The Parisian And La Tribune Sunday. “It’s a very uncertain endurance race”he told the Ile-de-France daily.

“If our opposition wants to censor, they will censor. I am very lucid. This could be derailed ten times over. But if those who really want it to work for the country play the game, we will get there”he analyzes in the weekly.

Near La Tribune Sundaythe head of government also indicated that the debate on the Zucman tax on high wealth, rejected by the deputies, “is behind us” : “It’s now a debate for the next presidential election.”

The Prime Minister also denies having negotiated a global agreement with the Socialists, a key party for the survival of the government. “There is no deal and there won’t be one until the endhe insists. The PS, which does not wish to play worst-case politics, can now defend concrete progress with our fellow citizens.”says Sébastien Lecornu in The Parisian. “Certain members of the PS sometimes have difficulty keeping the progress achieved in the long term alive”he tackles with La Tribune Sunday.

The head of government let go on Friday by saying he was ready to support the reindexation of retirement pensions and social minimums, as well as the increase in the CSG on assets, three measures already voted on in committee at the National Assembly on the Social Security budget. “In the end, it will be a transition budget. Without an absolute majority, I am ready to accept a strategy of small steps”he says in The Parisian.