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“We are swimming in the soup, in an endless day. » The metaphor is signed by the socialist deputy for Essonne, Jérôme Guedj, the day after the failure of the joint committee responsible for finding a compromise on the finance bill (PLF) for 2026, Friday December 19. While the scenario of a special law – which postpones appropriations from 2025 and ensures the continuity of the State – takes shape, the text appears ever more impossible to accept in the ranks of the left.

The Socialist Party no longer hesitates to say it is annoyed at playing, again and again, the role of constructive opposition, helping to unblock the situation through negotiations with the Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu. The socialist deputies thus castigate the behavior of their colleagues on the benches of the Les Républicains party but especially of Horizons, officially supporters of the government but who tend to refuse compromise.

“We agreed not to be at Matignon, we agreed not to overthrow a government which is not based on any legitimacy, we agreed to propose a crisis budget which is not the program of the New Popular Front, we accepted to vote for the PLFSS [projet de loi de financement de la Sécurité sociale] instead of abstaining because the government has no common base, we get nothing on the PLF, we have pushed the role of the responsible opposition to the limit, to be useful, and it would be up to us, in addition, to find a solution to the blockage between the “common base” and the precise? »we get aggravated within the entourage of the president of the PS deputies, Boris Vallaud.

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