The budgetary fog has given technique to a slight clearing for Sébastien Lecornu. The Prime Minister sees for the primary time since his arrival at Matignon a means out of the political disaster brought on by the autumn of François Bayrou in September, bolstered by the sudden resignation of his first authorities (Lecornu I). Contrary to his preliminary promise, the Prime Minister’s recourse to article 49 paragraph 3 of the Constitution to have the state finances adopted with no vote ought to enable him to stay in Matignon.
After three months of an usually abstruse budgetary debate, the Lecornu authorities desires to look forward to 2027. “Now we have to move forward. (…) You have to know how to end a political crisis” declared the pinnacle of presidency, Friday January 23, throughout a visit on the theme of housing to Rosny-sous-bois (Seine-Saint-Denis).
The identical morning, two motions of censure from La France insoumise and the Rassemblement nationwide didn’t carry him down. These rejected motions represent adoption of the income a part of the finance invoice (PLF) for 2026, after a primary 49.3 initiated on Tuesday by Sébastien Lecornu. “An instrument of last resort, not to say last aid,” he justified on Friday, earlier than resorting to a second 49.3 on the expenditure a part of the state finances within the nearly empty hemicycle of the Palais-Bourbon.
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