the Senate largely approves the finance bill, the text will be examined by the joint committee

If the senators and deputies who are members of the CMP agree, their version is expected in the Assembly the week of February 3 for a final vote, unless recourse to 49.3.

More than three months after its submission to Parliament, the draft state budget for 2025 was approved in the Senate on Thursday, January 23, by 217 votes to 105, without the votes of the socialists. Initiated by Michel Barnier in October, rejected by the National Assembly at first reading, suspended after the censure of the former Prime Minister and finally taken up by François Bayrou, this finance bill (PLF) experienced a chaotic journey through Parliament.

For the new government, the hardest part is yet to come, with the convening on January 30 of a joint committee (CMP), a meeting of seven senators and seven deputies responsible for reaching a compromise text. Without doubt one of the last opportunities to integrate concessions into the copy.

The common version will then have to pass the filter of the Senate, but especially of the National Assembly, in the week of February 3, for a final vote, unless the government decides to use 49.3. Such a choice would undoubtedly be followed by a new motion of censure.

But the PS is also put under pressure by its partners, the rebels believing that the party with the rose “would definitely break up” with the New Popular Front if it did not vote for censure on the budget. Particularly targeted by the left: the multiple additional budget cuts added in recent days by the Bayrou government, which represent hundreds of millions of euros less for ecology, housing, development aid and sport.