The best screenwriters know: excessive twists and turns will weigh down the plot. In this case, the extraordinary fate of the 2026 budget is not necessarily an easily digestible soap opera. “We were under the impression that a drama would be played every day,” complained Les Républicains de Meurthe-et-Moselle deputy Thibault Bazin, rapporteur of the social security financing bill (PLFSS). This Wednesday, November 26, the Assembly and Senate failed to reach agreement in the joint committee (CMP) on PLFSS. But the inconclusive outcome of a hearing that brought together seven deputies and seven senators to try to develop the same version in both Chambers is, in this case, a welcome change. And it is even desired by the executive, because the version that could be put forward by the CMP in which the right-wing is in the majority, would in any case be rejected in the Assembly and require the resumption of the entire parliamentary procedure…
