Overview
- Debates resumed with roughly 1,500 to nearly 2,000 amendments still pending, making a vote on the revenue chapter uncertain and leaving the spending chapter unlikely to be examined before the transmission deadline.
- The government rejects accusations of “playing the clock,” while LFI warns it will file a censure motion if the executive uses ordinances to finalize the budget.
- Jordan Bardella says the RN will vote against both the state and social‑security budgets regardless of concessions, opposes a small‑parcel levy, and touts wins on business relief and higher taxes on multinationals backed with LFI.
- The Social Security bill sent to the Senate includes a suspension of the 2023 pension reform, yet Senate social‑affairs commissioners have already deleted that clause ahead of debates starting Wednesday.
- A separate 2025 year‑end finance bill returns to the Assembly with a VAT shortfall estimated around €5 billion under scrutiny, as Bercy launches a probe into the gap and adjusts credits and cancellations.