The situation of blocking in France lasts and invites you to think that the new government could be born dead. The prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu, faces decisive hours for his survival and that of his executive, who has not even formed. The country will go out on Thursday to the street against the cutting plan that presented its predecessor, François Bayrou, and that has not yet been completely ruled out. On Friday, the new head of the Government will meet with the Socialist Party (PS) to try to achieve their support for budgets. And before Sunday I should appoint the members of their executive. This triple sequence will mark the political agenda of the coming months and invites you to think about a possible dissolution of the National Assembly.
The unions have convened a strike that will affect transports again, to health and education. The mobilization day of September 18 and the meeting last week were not enough to obtain “clear responses by the Prime Minister,” said Marylise León, maximum responsible for CFDT, central near the Socialists. In view of the closure, Lecornu sent the unions a letter made public this Wednesday in which he undertakes to improve the pensions of women mothers. But it doesn’t seem enough.
The demands of the eight allies gathered in Intersindical are, among others, the abandonment of the plan presented in mid -July by François Bayrou, which provided about 44,000 million euros in savings; the elimination of delay in the legal age of retirement at age 64; greater conditionality of public aid to companies; an increase in taxation for higher income; and the increase in resources for public services.
The new prime minister plans to convince the CFDT to obtain a non -censorship agreement with the PS. Lecornu has given priority to discussions with social interlocutors rather than meetings with the left, which will occur on Friday. The idea is to obtain some kind of previous agreement, probably modifying some sections of the controversial pension reform, to press the PS.
A first version of the Finance Bill for 2026 will be broadcast on Thursday, October 2 to the High Public Finance Council (HCFP) for its opinion, according to I monde. The transmission marks the beginning of the budget discussion process. The High Council, an independent agency assigned to the Court of Accounts, will have after seven days to issue its opinion, which will be made public during the formal presentation of the budget by the Government, predictably next week.
There will be concessions on the left and, necessarily, to the right. The prime minister said it would be “a commitment budget” to reduce the deficit of 5.4% to 4.7% of GDP. “I have taken into account all the consultations made with the unions, the employer and the political forces,” he said in an interview with Le Parisien. Openly unmarking from his predecessor, Lecornu said that his “will not be a budget of austerity and social regression”, and that next year the resources allocated to pensions (in 6,000 million euros) and health spending (at 5,000 million) will increase next year.
The Prime Minister confirmed that there will be a reduction of 6,000 million in the structure and functioning of the state machinery: “This important effort in the ministries will have to be accompanied by a long -term reform of the public function and our territorial organization through decentralization.” This is a claim of the right and, especially, of the ultra -right of Marine Le Pen.
The national regrouping (RN) of Le Pen has opened in the last hours not to knock down at first the Executive. But the deputy of the ultra-right-wing training Jean-Philippe Tanguy warned about the “lack of time” to vote the budget. “For the first time under the V Republic, Mr. Lecornu could make a budget by ordinances,” he said, stressing that “senior officials of the Ministry of Economy were already preparing it.” “If the budget is not voted on the planned deadlines, it can resort to this procedure,” he warned
Article 47 of the Constitution allows the budget to be approved by ordinances if the 70 -day period established by the Fundamental Law to adopt the Finance Law before December 31 is not respected. “There is a feeling that Mr. Lecornu plays permanently against democracy,” said Tanguy, who said that the RN “will not be prohibited from censoring it”, but “will judge on facts.”
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