US EditionFrance to Use Special Law to Carry Over 2025 Budget Amid Parliamentary Deadlock
Amid a hung parliament, the French government plans a special law to extend the 2025 budget into 2026 to maintain tax collection and civil servant payments.
- Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu announced plans to seek a special law to carry the 2025 state budget into the new year, allowing tax collection after January 1 to continue civil servant pay.
- Political instability following last year's vote has undermined budget talks as snap elections left a hung parliament, and a tug of war between the right-leaning Senate and lower house has complicated budget passage.
- The narrow adoption of the social security budget kept parts of the plan moving while the rest stalled as a joint committee failed on Friday to reach a compromise on the state budget for next year.
- Economic authorities called the measure a short-term fix as central bank governor Francois Villeroy de Galhau Friday warned it would raise the deficit above desired levels, while Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said he will convene leaders Monday to seek a path forward.
- Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said on X that parliament cannot agree before year end and pledged an austerity budget without using constitutional shortcuts, noting, `Parliament will therefore be unable to vote on a budget for France before the end of the year`.
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The French government must accept a new setback: Parliament could not agree on a budget for 2026. Premier Lecornu should now resort to a special law.
The French draft budget for the year 2026 failed in Parliament. A conciliation committee could not agree on a compromise on Friday. This makes a timely adoption impossible and offers explosives within the government. Now it is to judge a special law. The conciliation committee in the divided parliament could not agree on a budget for the coming year, as Members reported on Friday. Now it is expected that the new old Prime Minister Sébastien Leco…
Deputies and senators did not agree on the 2026 budget this Friday, December 19, excluding any adoption before the end of the year. After the CMP failed, the government is preparing for a special law to ensure the continuity of the state.
The French Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, has failed in his attempt to bring forward the draft budget for 2026 in the Assembly. The joint committee, consisting of seven deputies and seven senators, which had to agree on the final version of the document on Friday, has not reached an agreement. France is looking back at the abyss of the political crisis, from which it has been trying to emerge for a year.
"It would take a miracle," wrote Le Monde this morning. "And Libération: "Fatalism, tiredness and a bit of anger." In a few words, the state of mind that is breathed today in France. Moreover, the miracle did not exist: the Joint Parliamentary Committee, composed of seven MPs and seven senators, gathered this morning, did not find the agreement on the Budget Law for 2026. According to France Info, it would have taken thirty minutes to sink it. T…
The French Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, after the failure of negotiations between MPs and senators on budget 2026, will commission the Council of State for a special draft law to remedy...
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