The tension is zero. Following the passage of the Social Security budget in the Senate, which was largely reworked by the upper chamber, seven deputies and seven senators met this Wednesday evening in a joint committee (CMP) to try to agree on a joint text. No “deal” is possible.
The mob was said to be, as senators went to great lengths to “correct” the partially voted copy in the National Assembly. The majority of right-wing senators don’t want to hear about suspending pension reform. He deleted it.
The second reading was decisive
“The Senate’s copy orthogonally conflicts with the Assembly’s copy,” said Socialist Party leader Patrick Kanner, before the Social Security budget was put to a vote at the Luxembourg Palace. “We will not pretend to unroll these articles, even though we know there will be several points that stand in the way,” added one of the leading members of the CMP.
Therefore, the text will return for a second reading on Tuesday at the National Assembly, which will take a final decision if the deadline is met. “Parliamentary work continues, with the hope of providing France with a budget for Social Security in 2026,” said the CMP members at the end of the meeting, in a press release.
Officially, Sébastien Lecornu hopes a majority will vote for the text at the Palais-Bourbon. To achieve this goal, no vote should be lost from the central block. Rejection of the Social Security budget in the second phase would push the government to consider solutions that it officially wants to avoid at all costs, including regulation. “It could go off the rails,” he said Tuesday in a video in front of Gabriel Attal’s Ensemble pour la République squad. Make sure it doesn’t go off track sooner than expected.
