The French governme was saved from collapse
The French governme survived two no-confidence votes in parliame amid the ongoing crisis over the draft budget law.
According to Isna, the French governme was saved from falling in spite of two impeachme motions preseed by extreme left-wing parties and extreme right-wing parties with the support of moderate socialists and conservative legislators.
The Euronews website reported: The French governme confroed Prime Minister Sebastien LeCorneau today (Friday) with two impeachme motions preseed to the lower house in the coury’s parliame due to the decision to approve part of the postponed 2026 budget without a vote of the represeatives.
The French governme survived two no-confidence votes in parliame on Friday, stemming from a decision to approve the revenue part of the 2026 budget without a final vote in the lower house. A total of 269 MPs voted in favor of the motion of no confidence preseed by the far-left party “France Unyielding” along with the Greens and the French Communist Party.
288 votes were needed to remove the governme from power. A second motion of no confidence, preseed by the far right, received fewer votes.
Both groups sought to punish the governme for using without a vote Article 49.3 of the Basic Law – a coroversial tool provided in the Constitution – to pass the first part of the budget bill.
The prime minister will again invoke Article 49(3) of the constitution to bypass parliame’s vote on the budget bill, a move likely to trigger further no-confidence votes.
Reuters reported that the governme “must bypass parliame after mohs of negotiations that failed to produce a budget bill that would curb the deficit and win the approval of the lower house of parliame, where no party has a majority.”
France has been plunged io political turmoil since Preside Emmanuel Macron called early parliameary elections in June 2024. Since then, the National Assembly has been divided io three blocs, with no party holding an absolute majority.
By deciding to invoke Article 49.3 in the Revenue Departme, Lecorno violated his promise on October 3 not to use this mechanism. The governme, which gained more power with the rejection of two no-confidence motions, immediately applied Article 49.3 in the expense section of this bill. This move is likely to lead to more impeachme plans, which are expected to fail again.
France is under increasing pressure to reduce its budget deficit, which reached 5.4 perce of GDP last year. Paris has pledged to reduce the budget deficit below 3% of GDP under EU rules.
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