France’s Le Pen Boosts Budget Asks Ahead of Monday Deadline
- National Rally president says his party has more red lines
- Le Pen says that Prime Minister Barnier ‘has until Monday’
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Far-right leader Marine Le Pen, who holds outsize leverage in France’s split parliament, gave Prime Minister Michel Barnier until Monday to adhere to her budget red lines before she decides whether to topple the government.
Le Pen’s National Rally is demanding that Barnier tweak his 2025 fiscal plans, which incorporate €60 billion ($63.5 billion) of adjustments. It wants him to abandon a proposal to reduce drug reimbursements, call a moratorium on new or higher taxes on most individuals, index pensions to inflation from Jan. 1, and enact tougher migration and crime policies.