This is an unprecedented act under the Vmy Republic that the deputies raised, on Tuesday, November 12, at the end of the afternoon. The elected representatives of the Bourbon Palace rejected the first part of the finance bill (PLF) for the year 2025. This negative vote causes the rejection of the entire state budget examined in first reading in the National Assembly. The second part, dedicated to expenses, will not be discussed by the deputies for the third consecutive year.
With 362 votes against and 192 in favor, the government coalition (Renaissance, Horizons, MoDem, Les Républicains) and far-right elected officials rejected a heavily revised budget under the leadership of the New Popular Front (NFP). Only the united left spoke out in favor of a text judged “PFN compatible”equipped with “75 billion additional income” The target is multinationals and large assets, according to the president of the finance commission of the National Assembly, the “rebel” Eric Coquerel.
A figure questioned by the general budget rapporteur, the centrist Charles de Courson. According to him, part of the left’s amendments were “it is probably contrary to European law, the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Council or [posaient] legal difficulties due to its wording.
The minister responsible for the budget and public accounts, Laurent Saint-Martin, took up the argument intended primarily to disqualify the oppositions. “The majority of deputies reject both the fiscal beating and France’s inability to respect its European commitments,” welcomed the tenant of Bercy. The National Assembly text was notably stripped of France’s contribution to the European Union following the surprise vote on an amendment by the National Rally (RN).
Throughout the vote explanations of the eleven parliamentary groups, a pattern known since 2022 emerges. Each of the three blocks of the Chamber accuses the other two of collusion. For Aurélien Lecoq (LFI, North), the RN did this “What he knows how to do best: save Emmanuel Macron and the richest”. For David Amiel (Renaissance, Paris), the “fiscal demagoguery” of the text put to vote was the result of the alliance “between the extreme left and the extreme right”. As for Matthias Renault (RN, Somme), he found “The government’s initial copy already weighed heavily in taxes,” but the left “made the ship heavier to the point of absurdity”.
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