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Lecornu Government Survives No-Confidence Motions by 18 Votes, Faces Budget Fight

The close call shifts the focus to a 2026 budget process without 49.3, with the government eyeing a Social Security amendment to pause the 2023 pension law.

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Sébastien Lecornu affronte ce jeudi 16 octobre 2025 deux motions de censure déposées par LFI et par le RN. Le PS ayant décidé de ne pas les voter, elles ne devraient pas, sauf surprise, être adoptées.
Sébastien Lecornu, premier ministre.
Le Premier ministre, Sébastien Lecornu, lors d'une session de questions au gouvernement à l'Assemblée nationale, à Paris, le 15 octobre 2025.

Overview

  • The Assemblée nationale rejected LFI’s censure motion with 271 votes in favor, 18 short of the 289 needed, and later rejected the RN motion with 144 votes.
  • Most Socialist deputies withheld support for censure after a pledge to suspend the 2023 pension reform until the next presidential election, though seven PS members broke ranks.
  • Three LR deputies and two non-aligned MPs supported the RN text, underscoring the government’s fragile footing despite surviving the votes.
  • Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu confirmed the plan to carry the suspension via an amendment to the Social Security budget bill (PLFSS), a route critics say would force deputies to accept an austerity-tinged package to obtain the concession.
  • The coming budget debates will proceed without article 49.3 and target roughly €30 billion in adjustments, including about €14 billion in new levies, as EU officials warn the pension pause has significant fiscal implications.