This is a decisive day for the French public accounts. This Tuesday, November 12, deputies are called to vote on the “revenue” part of the budget bill for 2025. The text emerging from the debates in the lower house is largely reworked by the left and has little chance of finding a majority .
If it is rejected, it could continue its journey in the Senate in its initial form, that is to say that presented by the government. A reversed front scenario has thus emerged, in which deputies close to the government will vote against this revised version, facing a left which would on the contrary want to have it adopted to validate its victories in the hemicycle.
Meanwhile, on another front, the government and the right have agreed on a compromise on pensions. Their indexation to inflation having initially been postponed by six months to save four billion euros, they should be revalued at half of inflation on 1is January.
The Minister of the Budget, Laurent Saint-Martin, confirmed this Tuesday the announcement made by Laurent Wauquiez, of the Republicans (LR), a few hours before. “We have […] need to further demonstrate that the evolution of this text comes
