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The Government of the French Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornuhas renounced reaching a consensus on the 2026 budgets in the absence of a sufficient parliamentary majority and is now going to negotiate a formula that simply prevents the fall of his Government with a motion of censure in the approve them by decree.
“We have given every opportunity to the debate,” but “there comes a time when we have to see reality,” explained this Friday the Minister of Finance, Amélie de Montchalin, to justify this executive turn after several weeks in which its members insisted that they believed it was possible to achieve a parliamentary majority to support the budgets being debated.
In an interview with the channel France 2De Monchalin justified this inflection by the attitude of those he described as “saboteurs”referring to the two groups at the two ends of the parliamentary arc, La Francia Insumisa (LFI) of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the National Group (RN) of Marine Le Pen.
To illustrate this attitude, he stated that these two parties have been “deliberately” voting during parliamentary debates for amendments with the aim of making the budgets inapplicable.
What is going to happen from now on is that Lecornu and his cabinet are going to put on the table a budget proposal on which they are going to negotiate with the parties not only to get them to vote in favor, but simply so that when they are adopted by decree do not vote in favor of the motion of censure that will follow.
The 2026 budgets could not be approved at the end of last year, when they should have been done, also due to lack of a sufficient majority. In mid-December, the Executive decided to resort to a special law so that there was some kind of budget extension, but insisting that he wanted to try the debate again in January.
Now you technically have two options to adopt the budgets, the first is article 49.3 of the Constitution, which immediately exposes you to a motion of censure, and the other through decrees, which in any case also opens the doors for opposition groups to present a motion of censure.
The Government has stressed that one of the essential conditions for public accounts this year is that the deficit must be a maximum of 5% of GDP to be able to meet the commitment made with its European partners to reduce it to 3% at most in 2029.
In 2025, the first predictions point to the deficit being 5.4% of GDP, after having shot up to 5.8% in 2024.