Towards a budget presentation delayed by eight days, the first of the Fifth Republic

This is one of the side effects of the dissolution of the National Assembly and then the delay of Emmanuel Macron: for the first time under the V^my In the Republic, the government is preparing to disregard the legal deadlines for the examination of the State budget by Parliament. Considering it impossible to approve the draft budget for 2025 within the time frame provided by law, Michel Barnier has decided to give himself some time. The new Prime Minister now plans to transmit the draft finance law to the National Assembly on 9 October, forgetting the deadline of 1 October.^Ahem October. “In fact, it is a studied path”Michel Barnier’s entourage declared World, confirming the information of political.

Enough to immediately strain relations between Matignon and the parliamentarians, who, however, hold the fate of the future government in their hands, given the absence of a majority supporting Michel Barnier. “The longer they delay [à présenter le budget], the more there is a risk of limiting parliamentary debate”Eric Coquerel, president of France Insoumise (LFI) of the Assembly’s finance committee, alarmed the Agence France-Presse. “Violating an organic law by not respecting deadlines is a problem in itself” This also bothers Matthias Renault, the National Rally (RN) MP for the Somme.

In recent days, the heads of the finance committees of the Assembly and the Senate had demanded that the meeting of 1^Ahem October be honoured, and asked to obtain by then precise information on the appropriations allocated to each ministry. Eric Coquerel had even threatened to go personally to Matignon on Tuesday to collect these precious “ceiling cards”. To try to appease these decisive interlocutors, Matignon announced on Monday that he would write them a letter. And he promised to send them finally, before the end of the week, the “separate printout”, a summary booklet on future state expenditure, which the law normally requires to be sent to Parliament by 15 July. Thus, more than two months of delay are announced.

The dissolution shook everything

Since the beginning of the V^my In the Republic of 1958, the budgetary calendar was particularly framed, with a double objective. The objective was to give parliamentarians time to debate in depth this important annual text. But also to avoid that, due to the lack of a budget voted on time, the country would be forced to resort as during the Fourth^my Republic with “provisional twelfths”, with credits released drop by drop, month by month, until a global agreement is reached.

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