after the failure of the CMP, in the direction of a particular legislation | EUROtoday

The seven deputies and 7 senators assembly since 9:30 a.m., Friday December 19, within the joint committee (CMP) did not discover a compromise model on the finance invoice (PLF) for 2026, we discovered from parliamentary sources.

This disagreement, shortly famous between elected officers, makes it unimaginable to undertake a state funds earlier than December 31. “The Council of State will be seized of a special bill”the Prime Minister’s providers wrote to the press. A particular legislation is a technical textual content which postpones credit from 2025 and ensures the continuity of the State, particularly the gathering of taxes, earlier than a resumption of budgetary discussions in the beginning of the 12 months.

This process, already activated in 2024 after the autumn of the Barnier authorities, needs to be examined by each chambers at the start of subsequent week. The Prime Minister introduced that he would convey collectively, from Monday, the primary political leaders for the “consult on the procedure to follow to protect the French and find the conditions for a solution”.

A failure, after the adoption of the “Secu” funds

The failure of the CMP marks the tip of two months of parliamentary discussions round this textual content. The Assembly rejected it by voting in opposition to its first half on revenues. The Senate had adopted the federal government’s textual content, however in a profoundly revised model.

The compromise appeared virtually unimaginable between a senatorial proper connected to financial savings and tax cuts and an Assembly the place the left demanded extra income and fewer funds cuts. Sébastien Lecornu’s guess to have the funds adopted with out recourse to 49.3 in a decrease home and not using a majority was notably formidable.

The Prime Minister due to this fact suffered a failure, even when he managed to have the opposite funds adopted on Tuesday, that of Social Security, by acquiring a good vote from the Socialists in trade for a suspension of the pension reform.

In a message printed on X, the Prime Minister stated ” takes[re] act of failure » of the CMP, before confirming that “Parliament will therefore not be able to vote on a budget for France before the end of the year”. “I nevertheless regret the lack of desire to succeed on the part of certain parliamentarians, as we have unfortunately feared for several days”also underlined the head of government.

“Systematic opposition of the RN and LFI”

Within the executive and in the Assembly, the culprit is obvious: the Republican senators, accused of intransigence on the revenues to be found. According to a source in Matignon from the World, “the systematic opposition of the National Rally and La France insoumise [LFI]added to the intransigence of some senators Les Républicains [LR]prevents any possibility for Parliament to vote on a budget before the end of the year”.

“Without a budget, we will not be able to provide responses to our national emergencies (agriculture, rearmament, New Caledonia, etc.)”specified this source, indicating that the Prime Minister would “question the political groups about the exit conditions, the timetable and try to build the compromise between political forces that the CMP could have made”.

“The senatorial right has from the start ruled out any possibility of compromise on the State budget”for his part deplored the first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, on “refusing to negotiate amounts to choosing to block the country”.

At the Palais du Luxembourg, where the senators demanded that the Prime Minister use a 49.3 to have a less tax-intensive copy accepted, the ball is passed back to Matignon. The general budget rapporteur in the Senate, Jean-François Husson (LR), denounced during the meeting that he had not “no help in building consensus” of the government, believing that the latter did not in reality wish to reach a compromise.

Bruno Retailleau accused the government of having “created the conditions for an agreement on the budget to be impossible”. The former minister castigated a text which “would have sent France into the wall of debt” and again called on the government to use 49.3.

In the Assembly, the left, excluding socialists, denounced a government which “discard” on parliamentarians, in the words of Eric Coquerel (LFI), president of the finance committee. For environmentalists, the failure is due to “the deep disunity of the government bloc, incapable of agreeing on clear priorities and building a parliamentary majority”.