France sanctioned by decree the budget by 2025 for the lack of parliamentary majority

The French government He adopted his budgets for 2025 on Monday by decree In the absence of a majority in Parliament, exposing itself to a motion of censure that has few signs of prospering before the refusal of the Socialists to support it.

The prime minister, the centrist François Bayrou, announced before the National Assembly (lower house) the adoption by decree of the budgets. The only way for the deputies of stopping it is to present and approve a motion of censure.

In December, his predecessor, the conservative Michel Barnier, fell when he tried that would be discussed on Wednesday.

“The decision is in your hands. In the next ten days, France, by force of goodwill (…), will have its budgets, its budgets, which will send a sign of responsibility and stability,” said the prime minister before Parliaments.

The government faces the challenge of cleaning up public coffers and It plans to reduce the public deficit to 5.4% of GDP in 2025, which would be almost double the limit marked by European rules, thanks to an effort of 52,000 million euros (54,150 million dollars).

However, unlike December, lThe socialists have already advanced that the motion of censure will not vote presented by its allies of the New Left Coalition Popular Front (NFP) to guarantee budgets for France.

“It is not at all the budget that a leftist government would have proposed,” said the Socialists in a statement, in which they announce not a future motion of censure against the Executive, when France already has their public accounts.

France is mired in a deep political crisis From the legislative elections of mid -2024, which left a National Assembly divided into three blocks without clear majorities: left, center -right and extreme right.

Beyond the accounts, the minds of the matches are placed in the next electoral appointments: the municipal ones of 2026 and, above all, the 2027 presidential election to which the president of Centrodécha, Emmanuel Macron, can no longer be presented.