Sébastien Lecornu makes use of 49.3 a 3rd time, the final step earlier than the ultimate adoption of the textual content, anticipated on Monday | EUROtoday

The end line is shut: the Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, activated, Friday January 30 early within the morning, for the third time, article 49 paragraph 3 of the Constitution within the National Assembly. This is the final step earlier than the ultimate adoption of the state price range, anticipated for Monday. After 4 months of fierce discussions in Parliament, the 2026 finance invoice (PLF) will have the ability to succeed.

“France must have a budget. And therefore, before this hemicycle, I hold the government responsible for the entire PLF for 2026, on the basis of article 49 of the Constitution”the Prime Minister soberly declared earlier than the Assembly.

By thus incurring the duty of his authorities, Sébastien Lecornu ought to once more expose himself to 2 motions of censure, coming from the left outdoors the Socialist Party (PS) and the National Rally. These will likely be submitted to the deputies “probably Monday afternoon”authorities and parliamentary sources reported to Agence France-Presse. Unless there’s a big shock, they are going to be rejected like the 2 earlier ones due to the clemency of the Republicans and particularly the socialists.

The rejection of the motions of censure will then represent definitive adoption of the State price range, which can nonetheless must cross the filter of the Constitutional Council earlier than being promulgated. Its implementation will put an finish to the delicate regime of the particular legislation, handed on the finish of December for lack of parliamentary settlement to make sure the continuity of the State.

An “imperfect” textual content however which permits us to “escape the climate of uncertainty”, in response to the federal government

If it’s definitely “imperfect”this price range “is a useful text for the French, because it allows us to escape from the climate of uncertainty which has set in for several months”greeted the Minister of Public Accounts, Amélie de Montchalin, on Thursday. She spoke in entrance of the senators, who had been very sad with the ultimate copy. The latter, who had been to be offered with the textual content earlier than its return to the Assembly, in response to the principles of parliamentary process, didn’t want to delay the deadline, preferring to reject it outright with out reopening the dialogue.

If some parliamentarians, just like the ranking company Moody’s, doubt it, the textual content intends to scale back the deficit to five% of GDP in 2026, in comparison with 5.4% in 2025.

It gives for varied concessions aimed particularly on the PS, similar to 1 euro meals for college students or the rise within the exercise bonus for low-income staff. But it continues to arouse the hostility of the far proper and a big a part of the elected representatives of the left (“rebellious”, ecologists and communists), who’ve tabled motions of censure on every event.

This is the third use of the 49.3 by Sébastien Lecornu, who had dedicated to giving it up at the start of the autumn, on the request of the PS. The first two had been activated when studying the textual content once more, one on the income part, the opposite on the expenditure part.