deputies and senators fail to seek out an settlement, the textual content returns to the National Assembly on Saturday | EUROtoday

The deputies and senators assembly in a joint committee (CMP) failed, early Wednesday November 26, to agree on the Social Security financing invoice (PLFSS) for 2026, Agence France-Presse realized from parliamentary sources.

The failure of this CMP, a number of hours after the adoption of the textual content within the Senate, is something however a shock, as a result of the 2 chambers had reached very totally different variations of the invoice. He will return to the National Assembly on Saturday in committee, then on Tuesday within the hemicycle.

Earlier within the day, because of a cushty majority of Republican and centrist senators, the higher home voted for the PLFSS in a reworked model, 196 votes towards 119. There are quite a few variations between the 2 chambers on this “Secu” finances challenge, with a significant disagreement in regards to the suspension of the pension reform, suppressed within the Senate, whereas it allowed the Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, to acquire non-censorship of deputies of the Socialist Party.

While greeting the “concern for budgetary seriousness” of the Senate, the Minister of Labor, Jean-Pierre Farandou, acknowledged that there was “still a long way to go before arriving at a definitive and balanced copy”. The process can be “delicate”however “there are possible areas of common ground”he mentioned.

A duplicate near the one the federal government wished

Finally, aside from this concession on the Borne reform, the Senate’s copy comes near the one which the federal government wished, which left management to Parliament by renouncing article 49.3, which permits a textual content to be adopted with no vote.

The senators have in reality reached a textual content which reduces the Social Security deficit to 17.6 billion euros in 2026, in accordance with the federal government, a goal virtually an identical to that which had been set by the chief in its preliminary proposal (17.5 billion euros). The deputies had elevated the steadiness to 24 billion euros, earlier than seeing their debates stopped by the expiration of constitutional deadlines.

“We acted responsibly”greeted Les Républicains senator Corinne Imbert. “This budget restores the horrors that our fellow MPs had managed to slightly temper”conversely, the socialist senator Annie Le Houérou expressed despair.

The complete left voted towards, whereas the Macronist group abstained, fearing that the place of the fitting would come “weaken the conditions for a necessary compromise between political groups”.

The senators notably returned to the important measures added to the National Assembly, corresponding to the rise within the CSG on capital, obtained by the left, of two.8 billion euros. They additionally reinstated many measures eliminated, such because the freezing of social advantages and retirement pensions, aside from pensions beneath 1,400 euros, which might stay listed to inflation in 2026.