财政部长罗兰·莱斯库尔表示，当前的市场动荡正让各个光谱的政党认识到财政审慎的必要性，他对议会将支持其预算持乐观态度。
Finance Minister Roland Lescure said the current market turbulence is making political parties across the spectrum see the need for fiscal prudence, voicing optimism that his country’s parliament will back his budget.
“全世界都在看着我们 — — 所以除了极左翼的疯子之外，议席上的所有人都意识到我们需要财政紧缩，”他对彭博电视台说。“我不得不承认，债券市场正在一定程度上帮助我让大家保持诚实，因为利率很高。”法国国民议会本周开始讨论明年的预算。政府的法案包含430亿欧元（482亿美元）的措施，旨在降低赤字并缓解金融市场对该国公共财政的担忧。
“The world is watching us — so everyone on the bench, except for the crazy ones on the extreme left, realize that we need fiscal consolidation,” he told Bloomberg Television. “I have to admit that the bond market is helping me a little bit keeping everyone honest because rates are high.”The French National Assembly started discussing next year’s budget this week. The government’s bill features €43 billion ($48.2 billion) in measures to bring down the deficit and appease financial-market worries about the country’s public finances.
在议会深度分裂的情况下，达成妥协似乎很困难，而就在总统选举仅剩六个月之际，这一过程可能变得更加艰难。如果无就预算达成协议，政府仍可使用被称为49.3条款的规定绕过议会 — — 但存在被推翻的风险。它也可能使用被称为“ordonnance”的法令来通过草案预算。
Reaching a compromise appears difficult in a deeply divided parliament, and could prove even harder with a presidential election just six months away. If no agreement is found on a budget, the government can still use a provision known as 49.3 to bypass parliament — with the risk of being toppled. It could also use a decree known as “ordonnance” to adopt the draft budget.
莱斯库尔周五在曼谷发表讲话时，将这两种选择描述为“应让大家保持诚实”的“护栏”。“但如果我们感觉自己正在偏离轨道，我们将出于一个非常好的理由使用它们：我们正在为明年大选后接替他担任财政部长的人做艰苦的工作。”“你们希望继承的是预算还是一团糟？”莱斯库尔表示，“显然，他们想要一个预算，因为他们不希望在上任时不得不面对你知道的那一团糟。”
Speaking in Bangkok on Friday, Lescure described those two options as “guardrails” that “should keep everyone honest.”“But if we feel we have sliding on the side, we are going to be using them for one very good reason: we are doing the heavy lifting” for whoever succeeds him as finance minister after elections next year. “What do you want to inherit: a budget or a mess?”Lescure said that “obviously, they want a budget because they don’t want you have to do dealing with you know a mess when they get into the office,” adding that the “most likely scenario is lots of conversations in parliament with ups and downs and lots of noise.”
他补充说，“最可能的情况是议会将进行大量讨论，起起落落，充满噪音。”“但到了最后，当推来鞠到时，智慧将占上风，因为他们知道总有一天有人将继承这一点，”他说。莱斯库尔强调，投资者承认法国所作的努力。
“But at the end of the day, when push comes to shove, wisdom will prevail because they know that at some stage someone is going to inherit this,” he said. Lescure stressed that investors acknowledge France’s effort.
“市场在履行其职责 — — 最终发生的一切都是公平的，”他说。“因此我们必须确保让他们相信我们在做正确的事情。”他补充说，“来自其他欧元区财政部长的传染风险根本不存在。”
“Markets are doing their job — at the end of the day, what’s happening is fair,” he said. “So we have to be making sure that we convince them that we’re doing the right thing.”He added that “there’s no worry about contagion whatsoever” from fellow euro-area finance ministers.
“我们都在同一条船上，”他说。“虽然我们中有人比其他人更用力地划桨，但最终他们明白我们在做必须做的事情。”
“We’re all in the same boat,” he said. “Some of us are rowing a bit harder than others, but at the end of the day, they get it that we’re doing what we have to do.”