The main French employers’ organizations expressed concern this Monday about government censorship, which could occur this week and, according to them, weaken businesses, calling in particular for the “responsibility” of deputies. “In good conscience, no one has an interest in weakening an already fragile French economy. Households and businesses would immediately pay the price. Let us instead consolidate our country,” wrote the president of Medef, Patrick Martin, on X.
“Don’t sacrifice our businesses on the altar of your ambitions! », Launched for its part the Confederation of Small and Medium Enterprises (CPME) to the deputies, estimating in a press release that government censorship would “only increase our difficulties”. The National Rally announced Monday morning its intention to vote on the motion of censure that the left could table in the afternoon on the very sensitive text of PLFSS (bill on the financing of social security), after the recourse by Michel Barnier to 49.3 to adopt it.
The CPME deplores “the dramatic drift in public accounts, never controlled for years” and fears a France without a budget which “would open the door to a debt crisis whose consequences would hit economic players hard”.
“A lesser evil compared to the government’s initial text”
“Leaving our country without a solution would be irresponsible” and “our businesses would be the first victims” of the situation, the confederation still judges. The sound of the story is identical to the U2P, which called “parliamentarians to be responsible”, otherwise, according to it, there would be a risk of plunging France “into the most total unknown”.
“France needs a compass and will not be able to prepare the recovery of its public accounts without the adoption of a social security financing bill and a finance bill for 2025,” he said. added the organization which represents local businesses, in a press release.
The text of the PLFSS results from a compromise between a committee of senators and deputies and, as it stands, it should not be voted on by either the left or the extreme right given the division of the National Assembly.
“The text of the social security financing bill (…) does not meet the expectations of small businesses,” said the U2P. “However, it constitutes a lesser evil compared to the government’s initial text, with in particular the abandonment of the elimination of part of the exemptions from contributions between 1 minimum wage and 1.3 minimum wage.”