US EditionEmbattled French PM Sébastien Lecornu survives no-confidence vote in Parliament
- The government survived two no-confidence votes after French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu backed suspending the divisive 2023 pension reform earlier this week.
- Tension over raising the retirement age has roots in French political history, with Macron's reform raising it from 62 to 64 by 2030, despite opposition threats.
- The first no-confidence motion by France Unbowed secured 271 votes, short of the 289 needed, while a far-right motion won 144 votes with 265 lawmakers opposing Sébastien Lecornu.
- Had either motion passed, Sébastien Lecornu and his ministers would have resigned, but after the results Lecornu said he was ready to get down to work on budget negotiations starting next week and pledged not to invoke the constitutional tool used since 2022.
- Lecornu, who became prime minister last month, resigned last week and was reappointed days later with a reshuffled cabinet, and his offer to mothball the reform until after the 2027 presidential election helped sway Socialists amid European Union pressure on France's deficit.
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Adrien Gendre received Pierre Moscovici, President of the Court of Auditors. They discussed the censorship of Sébastien Lecornu's government, rejected by the National Assembly, of the public debt and of the examination of the budget that will begin on Monday. (Politics).
French PM survives two trust votes
French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu survived two confidence motions Thursday, just days after appointing his new government and making a key political concession to stay in power. The votes followed Lecornu's decision Tuesday to back suspending a divisive 2023 pension reform, in a bid to keep his cabinet afloat long enough to pass a much-needed austerity budget by year's end. The leftist Socialist (PS) party had threatened to vote to oust th…
Prime Minister Lecornu can continue, but the fundamental question remains whether welfare states can still be reformed, and not only in France.
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