Overview

• Sébastien Lecornu receives the PS at Matignon ahead of meetings with the RN and other parties, as LFI refuses the invitation and calls for immediate censure.
• Unions plan a 18 September national mobilisation that security services expect could reach around 400,000 participants, with the CGT demanding repeal of the 2023 pensions reform and warning the government could fall.
• The PS sets red lines including suspending or abrogating the pensions law and adopting a Zucman‑style 2% levy on fortunes above €100 million, supported by an Ifop poll the party will present.
• Lecornu confirms dropping the two‑holiday cut and rules out reviving a pensions conclave, while targets shift from Bayrou’s €44 billion savings plan toward figures cited at €35–36 billion by Yaël Braun‑Pivet and €21.7 billion by the PS.
• Employer groups reject higher corporate taxes and the Zucman tax, with Medef warning of a major business mobilisation, as authorities forecast mostly normal TGV service Thursday but one in two Intercités and roughly three in five TER trains.