Overview

• Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu is meeting Marine Le Pen at 09:00 and Socialist leader Olivier Faure at 10:30, with Les Ecologistes and the PCF to follow, while LFI has refused talks.
• The Socialist Party demands real purchasing-power gains, suspension of the pensions reform and fiscal-justice steps, calling current offers insufficient but agreeing to hear him out.
• Lecornu has floated tax relief and reduced social charges on overtime plus restoring elements of the “prime Macron,” while rejecting a Zucman wealth tax, an ISF revival and any pause to the pensions reform.
• The RN, which leads the largest group in the National Assembly, signals it could forgo censure if the budget cuts taxes and spending and plans to state its position after Lecornu’s policy speech early next week.
• Les Républicains chief Bruno Retailleau warns right-wing participation in the government is not assured, as the Élysée rules out any agreements with the RN.