Overview
- More than 1,500 amendments remain as the Assembly’s vote on the revenue section was postponed after a weekend pause in sittings.
- Under constitutional clocks expiring next week, the finance bill can be sent to the Senate in its initial version if deputies do not decide in time.
- Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has asked the Council of State to review several adopted tax amendments he says are legally fragile.
- The Constitution’s article 47(3) and the 2001 organic budget law allow the government to implement the budget by ordinances, which must later be ratified by law.
- Officials publicly deny preparing ordinances, with the budget minister saying none are being drafted and a government spokesperson calling them a “form of super 49.3,” while some in the majority say the option cannot be ruled out.