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Prime Minister Lecornu uses constitutional Article 49.3 to pass the 2026 austerity budget amid opposition and no-confidence threats, aiming to keep the deficit at 5%, officials said.
- On Monday, Sébastien Lecornu, French Prime Minister, announced at a Paris press conference he will invoke Article 49.3 to pass the 2026 budget without a vote on Tuesday.
- After weeks of stalled negotiations, the centre-right government said last week it would be `impossible` to adopt a 2026 austerity budget by vote, despite Sébastien Lecornu, French Prime Minister, pledging last year to seek parliament approval.
- The decision exposes the government to a no-confidence motion that could topple it, and Lecornu counts on concessions to the Socialists, key swing group in the lower chamber, to survive amid opposition from Marine Le Pen and France Unbowed.
- The budget sets the public deficit at five percent of GDP, and Emmanuel Macron, President, hailed it as it `guarantees stability` and `allows the country to move forward`, a government spokesperson said.
- Amid a longer political crisis, the step comes as Lecornu said he acted `with a certain degree of regret and a bit of bitterness` and called the outcome `a partial success, partial failure`.
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France PM Forces Budget Through
France’s long-running budget standoff finally boiled over on Monday January 19, with Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu confirming he will force the 2026 budget through parliament without a vote. The government will invoke Article 49.3 of the French Constitution, a controversial but legal mechanism that allows legislation to be adopted unless MPs manage to bring the government down in a no… Source
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The government of French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu is likely to survive a vote of no confidence related to the adoption of the budget, writes Politico.
France's head of government Lecornu wants to end the budgetary dispute by applying the much-discussed constitutional article 49.3, possibly saving the government, but also breaking a promise from C. Dylla.
Is France finally going to turn the budget page? Monday afternoon, the Prime Minister announced the use of Article 49-3 of the Constitution to force the hands of the deputies and to have the 2026 Finance Bill passed. What would be the point of letting see, finally, the end of this sequence begun a little more than six months ago, at the beginning of the summer of 2025.But at what cost? The first conference on the subject, organized by François B…
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