“Mroh now » urged the government and the parliamentarians who support him the re-prime minister of France. The work he refers to is difficult and begins tomorrow, Monday, when the first bill to be included in the budget will be debated in the National Assembly – the one to finance social security.
From the French Constitution, the Lecorny government has tight deadlines for passing the budget: first the social security financing bill must be considered, then the state budget must be discussed by the House and then the Senate, all in 70 days in total to pass the budget, until December 31. “We find it difficult to make predictions about developments” an advisor to the Social Affairs Committee of the National Assembly admitted to “Liberation”. “The situation is unprecedented, we have no point of reference.”
The councilor’s concern is justified: after two motions of censure from the far-right and the far-left opposition last Thursday, but its future, nine days after its formation, remains uncertain.
The centrist government escaped overthrow thanks to the support of the Socialist Party. The motion of impeachment against her, filed by his Insubordinate France , it received 271 votes, just 18 short of the 289 (out of a total of 577) required to bring down the government. Mélenchon managed to secure the votes of the Ecologists and the Communist Party but also the votes of seven Socialist MPs, who defied the party line which was “no” to the motion of censure, given that Lecorny until after the presidential elections of April 2027, a major requirement of the Socialists in order not to overthrow him.
Philippe: Macron must leave
However, the suspension of this measure also causes tremors in the centrist camp that supports Lekorni. THE Edouard Philippeits former prime minister Emmanuel Macron and leader of the small Horizons party, said it was too big a concession to the Socialists and stuck to his admittedly unsavory position on raising pension thresholds.
Philippe is also pushing for the early but orderly exit of President Macron, whose term ends in a year and a half, in order to end the political impasse he created by suddenly dissolving Parliament in July 2024, leaving no party, nor coalition of parties, to stand on their own. Philippe has stated that he intends to run for the presidency of France in the 2027 elections.
Meanwhile, the ongoing political crisis in France is expected to cost 20 billion euros in 2025 and 2026, according to calculations by the French Observatory of Economic Circumstances (OFCE) released on Wednesday.
