The LR deputies planned to vote on Wednesday the military programming bill providing for 413 billion euros over seven years to finance the armies, assured Tuesday the boss of the group Olivier Marleix.
We are moving towards a vote for first reading, conditional on the fact that in the Senate the government goes after the promises it seemed to make, said Mr. Marleix during a press briefing, the day before the solemn vote. the National Assembly on this text.
He particularly welcomed the securing of 13 billion over the period after the government’s acceptance of an amendment from his group. This envelope came in the government text from extra-budgetary resources, therefore considered more uncertain.
The Republicans had raised the stakes on this text, Mr. Marleix going so far as to question as insincere the impact study of the government, in April.
On Tuesday, he insisted on LR’s request not to postpone the bulk of the financing effort until after 2027, planned in stages: + 3.1 billion in 2024, then an additional 3 billion per year from 2025 to 2027, and 4 3 billion more per year from 2028, after the end of Macron’s five-year term.
We are very attached to the fact that the effort is also made in the first years of the LPM and not simply from 2027, hammered the deputy LR of the Alpes-Maritimes Michle Tabarot.
The law is interesting but does not correspond to the current international situation. Many countries that sit on NATO will make considerable efforts, she added, acknowledging however the context of deteriorated public finances.
Mr. Marleix for his part insisted on the fact that we can still discuss the overall effort. We hope to make progress on maintenance in operational conditions and training because it is a subject raised by all the services: the lack of means to train, he added.