the invoice to return to committee within the meeting; Amélie de Montchalin excludes “nothing that could ultimately give the French a budget” | EUROtoday

After an unsuccessful first studying, the Assembly resumes on Thursday January 8 in committee the examination of the State funds for 2026, with the hope shared by the federal government and parliamentarians of discovering a speedy resolution. The Minister of Public Accounts, Amélie de Montchalin, assured Thursday, on RTL, that she “do not exclude[ait] nothing that could ultimately give the French a budget”when she was questioned a couple of doable use of 49.3. “The method of adopting the budget depends on the government [et] in fact there are methods other than voting, if voting is not possible”declared the minister, whereas noting {that a} “political agreement” prerequisite was important.

The authorities needs France to return to under the 5% deficit mark in 2026, in comparison with 5.4% in 2025. On December 19, a joint committee – made up of seven deputies and 7 senators – rapidly famous the impossibility for the representatives of the 2 Chambers to agree on the identical model of the textual content, making it equally not possible to undertake the funds earlier than December 31.

The authorities due to this fact needed to resort to a particular regulation on the finish of the yr to make sure the continuity of the functioning of the State, by extending taxes from 2025 to 2026. Putting on maintain particularly the rise in protection credit and even some agricultural measures, at a time when the career is expressing its anger.

The finance invoice is now again for brand new studying within the Lower House, first from Thursday to Saturday in committee, then from Tuesday within the Hemicycle, theoretically till January 23. If the textual content is adopted, for it to be closing, it can nonetheless be mandatory for the Senate to approve it in the identical phrases, or for the Assembly to resolve a 3rd time. The deputies will begin from the Senate model, in committee in addition to in session, since for budgetary texts the work of the committee has consultative worth.

Getting out of the funds sequence

The chief of the PS deputies, Boris Vallaud, additionally estimated in Release Wednesday that it was ” time (…) to get out of this budgetary sequence ». Mr. Vallaud returns the decision to the government, specifying that he “must give reasons not to be censored”. In terms of method, the use of 49.3, which allows the government to have a text adopted without a vote by incurring its responsibility, seems more and more inevitable.

As the PCF and the Ecologists head towards a vote ” towards “like LFI and the RN, for the text to obtain a majority it would be necessary for the socialists and independents of LIOT to vote for. What the PS refuses to do, as Mr. Vallaud reiterated. The route of ordinances, unprecedented, also seems compromised, the PS seeing in it the “worst solution”.

The question was discussed during a meeting in Bercy on Tuesday, which brought together for more than four hours representatives of the government coalition, LIOT and the PS around ministers Amélie de Montchalin and Roland Lescure (economy).

What could be the terms of a non-censorship pact? They are currently difficult to identify. The general budget rapporteur, Philippe Juvin (LR), proposes in a document revealed by Les Echos and consulted by Agence France-Presse an increase in revenue of 2.93 billion euros compared to the Senate version and a drop in expenditure of 6.2 billion euros.

Far removed from the PS, which wishes to increase spending by 9 billion euros compared to the government’s initial version. The examination in committee should in any case give rise to heated debates again, with more than 2,000 amendments tabled.