the PS pressured into an about-face on 49.3 | EUROtoday

The Prime Minister resolved to 49.3, and the primary secretary of the Socialist Party (PS) with him. Sébastien Lecornu like Olivier Faure had nevertheless made the renunciation of this text of the Constitution permitting a legislation to be adopted with out a vote their mantra, each insisting on the advantages of a parliamentary dialogue to push every parliamentary group to a compromise on the price range. If the maneuver labored for the Social Security financing invoice in December 2025, even pushing environmentalists to abstain on the textual content, it skilled its small dying inside the framework of the finance invoice.

Lacking a majority on this textual content, the tenant of Matignon solely had the passage by pressure, with two strings to his bow: article 49 paragraph 3 of the Constitution or article 47, which authorizes the federal government to move the price range by ordinance and with out consulting Parliament. This second possibility, pushed by the Elysée and studied carefully by Matignon, provoked the ire of the socialists, who till then swore to make the query of the parliamentary automobile a “secondary” topic, preferring, they stated, to focus on the substance of their budgetary proposals.

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