Matignon prepared to attract the weapon of the particular regulation | EUROtoday
Will France have a finances at Christmas? The custom dangers being undermined once more this yr, as in 2024. Despite the adoption at first studying, Tuesday December 9, of the social safety financing invoice, an encouraging success for Sébastien Lecornu, the vote on the state finances nonetheless guarantees to be very troublesome. Matignon and Bercy due to this fact started to organize a “special law” to keep away from a monetary blockage.
After a technical hitch in 1979, beneath Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, the query of voting on a finance invoice (PLF) for the next yr didn’t come up for forty-five years. But on the finish of 2024, the autumn of Michel Barnier had made it inconceivable to undertake a finances for 2025 on time. A yr later, that of the PLF for 2026 seems threatened in flip.
Sébastien Lecornu’s textual content, transmitted to Parliament exterior the authorized deadlines, was rejected unanimously minus one vote by the National Assembly on November 21. It is at the moment being debated by the Senate, which adopted the primary half, dedicated to income, on December 4, and plans to validate your entire undertaking on December 15. But can this finances, largely corrected by the Senate, then be the topic of a compromise with the deputies in a joint committee? And if so, will this model have the ability to get hold of the assist of the socialists, whose assist is decisive in a National Assembly with out a steady majority?
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