Tensions between Edouard Philippe and Sébastien Lecornu endanger the “Secu” finances | EUROtoday

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Sébastien Lecornu, during a question session to the French government at the National Assembly in Paris, December 3, 2025.

Keep me from my enemies. My associates, I’ll care for it… After having received the belief of the Socialist Party (PS), Sébastien Lecornu is now engaged in a confrontation with a former confederate and supposed help, Edouard Philippe. To the purpose of shaking up his agenda, Thursday, December 4, to spend the day on the bench and enhance the strain, within the hemicycle of the National Assembly, on the danger run by a rejection of the Social Security financing invoice (PLFSS). “The PLFSS is an act of national responsibility, not an area of ​​political posturing”asserted the Prime Minister, in an environment of daggers drawn all through the debates.

Edouard Philippe ignited the powder, Tuesday morning, on the finish of a political workplace and a gathering of deputies from his celebration, Horizons, in an eruptive ambiance. As it stands, “we cannot vote for”decreed the previous head of presidency, after having surveyed his troops, revolted towards the “drift” noticed through the examination of budgetary texts.

For a number of days, the Philippist executives and elected officers have been oscillating between the temptation of a vote towards or an abstention, through the closing vote on December 9. The declaration of the candidate for the presidential election, which conveniently leaked by the press, took on the looks of a strain assault straight aimed towards Sébastien Lecornu.

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