despite the risks of rejection of the 2026 budget, the government wants to be positive

Faced with a situation that seems blocked, the executive is already preparing after-sales service. With, in particular, a special law to extend the 2025 budget.

Will France have a 2026 budget by the end of the year? The discussions which have lasted for weeks in the Senate and the National Assembly are bitter. The different political parties do not seem to find a compromise. To get out of the rut, if parliamentarians fail to vote on the budgetary texts before December 31, the government has announced that it wants to present a special law, like last year, to extend the 2025 budget.

While affirming that the government’s objective was to arrive at a voted budget, “in the event that we do not succeed, for both calendar and political reasons (…) it will obviously be necessary for the government to present a special bill to Parliament“, indicated Laurent Panifous, Minister of Relations with Parliament, to senators, Thursday, November 20.

If the deputies intend to massively reject the revenue part of the state budget by Sunday, faced with a text that has been so reworked since the start of its examination that no group can relate to it anymore, the government is therefore already preparing the after-sales service.

However, those around the Prime Minister continue to believe that the method is the right one. That the groups will not end up getting along”on the lowest common denominator“.”It is not shocking that the texts are rejected at first readingreassures a member of the government. It just shows that the compromise is not yet ripe.“

But how does Sébastien Lecornu plan to succeed in a month, something that eludes him today? “I don’t know, but we’ll get there“, positive a minister who bets on a “very strong political pressure” to get everyone to agree.