{"id":56942,"date":"2026-01-23T17:49:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T17:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french-gov-t-survives-no-confidence-votes-over-budget-issue\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T17:49:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T17:49:30","slug":"french-gov-t-survives-no-confidence-votes-over-budget-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/french-gov-t-survives-no-confidence-votes-over-budget-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"French gov’t survives no-confidence votes over budget issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

The motions, filed separately on Tuesday by left-wing parliamentary groups including La France Insoumise, the Democratic and Republican Left group (GDR) and the Ecologists, as well as by the far-right National Rally and its ally, the Union of the Right for the Republic (UDR), accused the government of abusing constitutional powers to force the state budget through parliament.<\/p>\n

The motion put forward by the left-wing deputies garnered 269 votes, falling 19 votes short of the 288 required for adoption, according to the National Assembly. The second motion, tabled by the right-wing, was also rejected, receiving 142 votes, well below the threshold needed to bring down the government.<\/p>\n

Lecornu announced Monday that he would resort to Article 49.3 of the Constitution, which allows legislation to be adopted without a parliamentary vote, to break the 2026 state budget deadlock.<\/p>\n

According to France’s BFM TV, Article 49.3 effectively allows the opposition to table a motion of censure, which allows them to reject the adoption of the text passed using this constitutional provision and to bring down the government.<\/p>\n

The state budget comprises two main components: revenues and expenditures. Lecornu has already invoked Article 49.3 Tuesday in the National Assembly on the revenue side of the budget bill.<\/p>\n

With the no-confidence votes out of the way on Friday, the government can now resort to Article 49.3 a second time to adopt the expenditure side of the budget.<\/p>\n

The bill would then move to the Senate before returning to the National Assembly for a third and final use of Article 49.3. The subsequent two uses are also expected to be followed by no-confidence motions.<\/p>\n

Lecornu’s minority government has little room for manoeuvre in France’s fractious parliament, where budget disputes have already ousted his two predecessors over cost-cutting measures in a little over a year. <\/p>\n

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The French government, led by Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu, survived two no-confidence votes on Friday after deputies in the National Assembly rejected the motions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000100980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-56942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000100980,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/00france-budget-01-pwkf-superjumbo.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/00france-budget-01-pwkf-superjumbo.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/00france-budget-01-pwkf-superjumbo.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/00france-budget-01-pwkf-superjumbo.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/00france-budget-01-pwkf-superjumbo.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/00france-budget-01-pwkf-superjumbo.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000100980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56942"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=56942"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=56942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}