Overview
- After eight days of debate, deputies failed to finish the State budget’s revenue section and shifted on 4 November to the Social Security financing bill.
- Early exchanges featured the adoption of an RN amendment restoring the old exit tax, while the left boycotted a government negotiation because RN took part.
- The Social Security bill includes article 45 bis suspending the 2023 pension reform timetable, with financing under dispute and costs rising from about €400 million in 2026 to €1.8 billion in 2027.
- The government targets a 2026 Social Security deficit of €17.5 billion versus roughly €23 billion this year, as the Cour des comptes warns the recovery plan faces major uncertainties.
- Sébastien Lecornu signaled readiness to drop the freeze on pensions and minima; hundreds of divisive savings such as higher medical franchises and limits on sick leave face roughly 2,400–2,500 amendments before a 12 November vote and a hard 23 November transmission to the Senate, with ordinances or a special law possible if time runs out.