The dustbin of history. “Wauquiez must understand that if it’s Barnier, we’ll end up like Bellamy ( 8.5% in the European elections in 2019 ). And if we don’t make it to the second round (of the presidential election), it’s over. The right is exploding between Zemmour and Macron. He can’t play a scorch earth policy, because he won’t get anything back, there will be nothing to get back,” thunder a Bertrandist parliamentarian by telephone last night, assuring in passing that the party’s leader, Christian Jacob, must speak soon with the president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. “To calm him down.”
THE EXECUTIVE
THE MISTAKE . Get out your lighters, Alain Griset has an appointment at midday at the Paris judicial court, where he is to be tri for “failure to declare assets”. The precise reason: the failure to declare “financial interests held in a stock savings plan (PEA), as well as the associat cash account” for an amount of 171,000 euros. During his previous summons, on September 22, the Minister Delegate in charge of SMEs had obtain through his lawyer the postponement of his case due to… an overload schule.
On the executive side , nothing has been explicitly announc, but today’s date is firmly in everyone’s minds, and Griset’s possible conviction has been anticipat for a long time. Two options are on the table in the event that the minister is not only convict, but also ask to leave the government, according to several well-inform sources contact by Playbook.
The “low cost” option Griset’s file could go to one of the current
tenants of Bercy, who would then broaden its scope, such as the Minister Delegate in charge of Industry, Agnès Pannier-Runacher.
nto the government – the name of MoDem Jean-Noël Barrot was circulating in September. With the idea in passing of making a gesture towards François Bayrou, who since July has ardently defend the principle of a common house of the majority.
Technical detail : the bill on independent workers defend by Griset is expect at the end of October in the Senate and, in principle, in January in the Assembly.
BREAKING DOWN MONEY. It’s D-Day for Emmanuel Macron’s “France 2030” special database plan (known as “twenty-thirty” in the industry). The head of state, who is banking heavily on this investment plan in future technological sectors worth tens of billions of euros, is due to reveal the details this morning at the Elysée Palace. As Playbook wrote to you on Friday , it will be about batteries for electric vehicles, electronic chips, hydrogen, but also nuclear power, which the President of the Republic intends to impose as a strong topic of his future campaign, as detail in Le Parisien this morning. All with two key words: “competitiveness” and “sovereignty”.
AAH ALLOC Attention sensitive subject
Last Thursday, it was a bill by Aurélien Pradié (LR) that was reject in the how to enable or disable bitlocker National Assembly. In June, another bill had receiv the approval of a majority of groups in the Assembly – up to the Agir deputies – forcing the government to resort to the block vote procure to avoid its adoption. The affair had caus a fuss . The question of “deconjugalization” or, in other words, the individualization of the Disabl Adult Allowance (AAH) – that is to say the end of conditioning its amount on the income of a couple – returns this afternoon to the Senate, with the second reading of this same text.
The subject is almost unanimous in Parliament , except for the presidential bookyourlist majority. It affects some 270,000 disabl people in couples and their spouses. The associations, which point out the cases of people forc to choose between their life as a couple and their financial independence, speak of the “price of love”. But the government and the majority — through the voice of Sophie Cluzel, in particular — prefer the establishment of a flat-rate duction of 5,000 euros on the spouse’s income, which will affect half as many people but with a greater gain estimat at 110 euros per month. More details on the Public Sénat website .