Overview
- Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu instructed Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez to ready the organization of potential legislative elections on March 15 and 22.
- The executive has signaled that a successful censure would be followed by dissolving the National Assembly, with the president and prime minister aligned on that course.
- La France Insoumise and the Rassemblement National have announced censure motions linked to the EU–Mercosur vote and the farm crisis, set for examination Tuesday and Wednesday, January 13–14.
- The 2026 budget remains stalled after the Finance Committee rejected the revenue section in new reading, following a special continuity law passed when the year-end deadline was missed.
- Lecornu is weighing Article 49.3 or ordonnances despite an earlier pledge to the Socialists not to use 49.3, while the government on January 9 unveiled limited ‘agricultural justice’ measures and insisted France will have a budget in January.