{"id":227466,"date":"2025-09-15T00:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T00:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/227466\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T00:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T00:52:12","slug":"le-pen-turns-the-screw-on-macron-ahead-of-crunch-budget-talks-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/227466\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Pen turns the screw on Macron ahead of crunch budget talks \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe National Rally is not up for sale to the highest Macronist bidder, as opposed to [the conservative] Les R\u00e9publicains and the Socialists,\u201d Bardella hammered home on stage. \u201cWe are not like them.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Lecornu signaled his intention to seek out support within moderate groups on the left in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ladepeche.fr\/2025\/09\/13\/entretien-exclusif-sebastien-lecornu-jai-decide-de-retirer-la-suppression-de-deux-jours-feries-le-nouveau-premier-ministre-devoile-ses-priorites-12928818.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a wide-ranging interview<\/a> with local newspapers, extending several entreaties and ruling out \u201ca political deal\u201d with the National Rally.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In private, Le Pen and her top lieutenants have likened a potential agreement between Macron\u2019s camp and the Socialists to a mutual kiss of death. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While the far-right leader has refrained until now to call for the French president to step down, the crowd on Sunday chanted \u201cMacron, d\u00e9mission,\u201d seemingly following the lead of Bardella and others in the party\u2019s top brass, who are urging the president to step down \u2014 something he has repeatedly ruled out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That would present a potential challenge to Le Pen\u00a0who is currently barred from running in an election over embezzlement \u2014 she denies all charges and will face an appeal trial in January to try and overturn the verdict.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To her supporters\u2019 delight, she made it clear on stage that she was going nowhere.\u00a0The far right leader emerged from the summer in a hawkish mood, turning the thumb down on the outgoing prime minister quicker than anyone thought, and boosting her supporters\u2019 morale ahead of local elections in March.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am a determined, stubborn, combative woman, and I am not going to apologize for it.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe National Rally is not up for sale to the highest Macronist bidder, as opposed to [the conservative]&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":227467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[90,102001,8703,156,115831,8706,103195,2851,50,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-227466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-elections","9":"tag-elections-in-europe","10":"tag-emmanuel-macron","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-french-political-crisis","13":"tag-french-politics","14":"tag-jordan-bardella","15":"tag-marine-le-pen","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115205580003158407","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}