“We are not going to do the usual circus”: behind the scenes of Sébastien Lecornu’s budgetary decisions
STORY - If it goes through 49.3 or through ordinances, the most likely scenarios, the 2027 budget will be very close to the original copy. The Prime Minister left his personal mark and his method there during intense…
To say that the budget review is bogged down is an understatement. The deputies, at the end of a debate as long as it was tortuous, rejected on Wednesday the first part of the finance bill (PLF) - that which concerns taxation. The second part - expenditure - suffered the same fate in the Finance Committee.
More than a month after its submission to the desk of the National Assembly, it is the government's budget copy, to the nearest decimal point, which will be examined by the Senate in the coming days. In this atmosphere of debacle, we no longer find the slightest observer to deny that the 2027 budget will pass, if it passes, either by 49.3, or by ordinances.
In both scenarios, the text finally adopted would be similar - or even strictly identical in the case of the ordinances - to the copy prepared by Sébastien Lecornu. A document which undeniably has its “legacy”, according to observers. It must be said that the Prime Minister seems to have put a lot of himself into it.
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