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Sébastien Lecornu takes management of the state of affairs. The French Prime Minister doesn’t hand over his technique of entrusting Parliament with the accountability of approving and partly drafting the 2 French budgets, however he doesn’t intend to go away the nation adrift after the virtually unanimous no to the “revenue” a part of the Budget referring to the State within the strict sense (the opposite issues social safety, welfare).

«Breaking ties» with electoral propaganda

The prime minister desires to “avoid the blockade”, and subsequently invitations deputies and senators to “defend Parliament”, giving up speaking about particular legal guidelines for the provisional train, of prescriptions (“government” emergency devices) and “failure” devices. He additionally asks them to “burn bridges” with “certain political parties and certain candidates in the presidential elections” for whom “compromise is not compatible with their electoral strategy”, he mentioned with an express reference to the France Insoumise et al National Gathering: a phenomenon, in line with Lecornu, not immune from a sure “cynicism”, which subsequently requires the “vigilance of the government” to make sure the coherence of the Budget: “We will find it immediately in the second reading atAssembly et al Senate», he explained yesterday in a press point.

Five central points

The “no” at the first reading of the Budget was “anticipated”, he said. but “there may be all the time a majority within the Assembly that permits the funds to be voted on”. The Government’s supervision – “to make sure readability for residents and the financial world and coherence particularly on points that can’t watch for the presidential deadline of 2027” – will focus on five issues: the deficit, which must remain below the threshold of 5% of GDP, avoiding “taxes that don’t exist” and “insincere” cuts; the reform of the State, with much attention to administrative decentralization and the clarification of responsibilities (a topic strongly felt by senators, representatives of local authorities); energy, which affects the economy, sovereignty, ecology and cost of living; agriculture, which has always been a central, strategic theme for France; and finally internal security – the fight against drug trafficking for which the hiring of 700 specialized police officers was planned (out of a total of 1,400) – and foreign security for which an additional 6.7 billion euros are foreseen.

The Defense urgency

If the priority is the deficit target, Lecornu explained, the urgency is Defence: the Government intends to open specific debates on the five points at the National Assembly, which could end with a vote that “permits us to create a compromise framework”, and military issues will be the first to be addressed, including at the Sénat, “within the subsequent few days, actually subsequent week”.

Towards a “international settlement”?

The idea of ​​a “international settlement” between part of the left – with out Insubordinate – and the central bloc now appears to be beginning to make headway, on the initiative of the socialists, and the similarities with Lecornu’s proposals appear promising.