Overview
- Deputies voted 404 to 1 against the revenue section after four weeks and 125 hours of debate, a first under the Fifth Republic.
- The defeat resets the process as the bill goes to the Senate in its initial form, voiding 2,246 amendments.
- Measures added by deputies, such as a tax on multinationals, drop out of the text as withdrawn provisions like the income‑tax scale freeze return.
- Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu’s team says a compromise remains possible, while publicly ruling out a special law for now despite growing political talk of that fallback.
- Franceinfo reports the executive is studying a reworked budget that could surface between December 19 and 23, with potential 49.3 use discussed as municipal elections loom in a month.