US EditionFrench government survives no-confidence vote over budget process
Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu used Article 49.3 to pass the 2026 budget's revenue section without a vote, prompting two no-confidence motions that failed due to Socialist Party support.
- On Friday, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu used Article 49.3 to pass the revenue section of the 2026 budget, and French MPs rejected two no-confidence motions.
- Lecornu is now expected to use Article 49.3 again to pass the spending section and approve the full bill after Senate scrutiny, stabilising a process stalled under predecessor François Bayrou.
- Because the Socialist Party signalled earlier in the week that it would not bring down the government, the left‑wing parties excluding Socialists secured 288 votes, both short of the majority threshold.
- Lecornu argued this is a workable budget and pledged to keep the public deficit at 5%, while Faure said his party secured concessions including €1 meals and nearly €8bn in levies.
- Warning from the far-right came as Marine Le Pen, National Rally parliamentary leader, denounced what she called `backroom deals` and warned of a looming `budgetary Chernobyl`.
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The French Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, sees the light at the end of the tunnel of a busy and long-standing budget debate. This Friday he overcame the motions of censorship that the extreme left of Insumisa France (affins to Sumar or Podemos) and the ultra-right National Group had presented in response to his decision to approve through an unpopular decree this year’s budgets. The text of the extreme left obtained 269 votes and remained at…
After failed motions of censure, the French government can enforce the state budget without a parliament.
The French government survived two no-confidence votes in parliament on Friday. The votes were held after the government decided to force through a revenue part of the 2026 budget, but ...
The French Members rejected this Friday two other motions of censure against the...
After months of struggle, Prime Minister Lecornu drives the 2026 budget through parliament with the help of constitutional article 49.3. The opposition speaks of betrayal, while the economy and the EU hope for planning security.
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