“Sébastien Lecornu’s daring bet to find a compromise on the 2026 budget is a lost bet” | EUROtoday

Lgive energy to Parliament. This was Sébastien Lecornu’s daring wager when, succeeding in October 2025 two prime ministers who had been rapidly despatched residence, he was given the mission of offering a funds for a France that had change into ungovernable. The wager is misplaced. Friday January 16, on the steps of the Hôtel de Matignon, the person of compromise needed to acknowledge that his success in regards to the vote on the Social Security financing legislation in December 2025 wouldn’t be repeated in budgetary issues.

Words hated by the oppositions – 49.3, the ordinances – have resurfaced within the public debate, auguring troublesome days, even weeks, for the federal government. By opting, Monday January 19, for the usage of 49.3, one of many weapons of rationalized parliamentarism which he claimed to need to resign, the top of presidency finds himself in the identical unhealthy place as his predecessors. He is accused of eager to drive his means via and is below risk of a number of motions of censorship.

In his protection, Sébastien Lecornu closely charged La France insoumise (LFI) and the National Rally (RN), accused of defending “cynical and partisan positions”. He, alternatively, failed to emphasise that, if the forces positioned between these two extremes, in different phrases the reasonable left, the central bloc and the Republican proper, had managed to forge a compromise, the facility of the extremes would have been neutralized, France would now have a funds for 2026 and Parliament may boast of getting regained some shade.

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